LIBRARY  OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS 

AT  URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 

IN  MEMORY  OF 

STEWART  S.  HOWE 

JOURNALISM  CLASS  OF  1928 


STEWART  S.  HOWE  FOUNDATION 


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I  .H.S. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  HARRISON. 


DEDICATION 


TO 


ri  Harrisori 


CHRISTIAN  GENTLEMAN;  PATRIOTIC  CITIZEN; 


BRAVE  SOLDIER;  WISE  STATESMAN 


AND 


23d  President  of  tKe  United  States. 


THIS  VOLUME 
IS  RESPECTFULLY  DEDICATED 

— BY — 

THE  OLD  TIPPECANOE  CLUB 
OF  CHICAGO. 


PRESS    OF 

PEERLESS    PRINTING    CO., 
107  FIFTH  AVE.,  CHICAGO, 


PREFACE. 


UNQUESTIONABLY  the  unique  Presidential  campaign  in 
this  country  was  that  of  1840.  A  stupendous,  peaceful  rev- 
olution! When  forty-eight  years  later  the  surviving  followers  of 
that  gloriously  successful  chieftain,  numbering  no  less  than  fifty 
thousand  souls,  received  the  glad  tidings  that  the  National  Re- 
publican Convention  had  nominated  his  distinguished  grandson, 
Benjamin  Harrison,  for  President  of  the  United  States,  they  ral- 
lied as  if  by  bugle  call,  formed  themselves  into  scores  of  Tippe- 
canoe  Clubs,  held  spirited,  soul-stirring  meetings,  as  in  days  of 
yore,  buckled  on  the  armor,  and  unfurling  their  time-worn  banner 
to  the  breeze,  again  marched  forth  to  battle  and  to  victory.  Most 
of  the  veterans,  conscious  of  having  participated  in  their  last 
Presidential  conflict,  were  then  ready  to  exclaim  with  Simeon  of 
old:  "  Lord,  now  lettest  thou  Thy  servant  depart  in  peace,  for 
mine  eyes  have  seen  Thy  salvation." 

It  is  improbable  that  similar  coincidences  will  ever  reappear 
in  history,  in  that  the  identical  principles  sacredly  maintained  by 
so  large  a  body  of  voters  during  almost  half  a  century,  notwith- 
standing the  vicissitudes,  oft  times  tumultuous, to  which  the  re- 
public had  meanwhile  been  exposed,  including  the  unfortunate 
canvass  of  1884,  should  again  be  the  battle-cry  and  win  popular 
favor  and  endorsement— and  that  under  consanguineous  marshal- 
ship.  Let  it  be  recorded  in  history,  and  never  forgotten,  that 
every  man  who  voted  for  the  two  Harrisons  for  President  was 
loyal  to  the  Union  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  If  constant 
devotion  to  principle  throughout  a  long  and  active  life  shall  be 
held  worthy  of  remembrance,  esteem  and  emulation  by  the  de- 
scendants of  those  who  intelligently  and  patriotically  practiced 
it — and  if  the  perusal  of  these  pages  shall  stimulate  the  reader  of 
whatsoever  party  to  an  exalted  sense  of  political  duty,  and  con- 
sequent love  of  country,  the  object  of  this  book  will  have  been 
accomplished. 


DECLARATION  OF  PRINCIPLES 


The  Old   Tippecar\oe   Club  of  Chicago. 


At  a  regular  meeting  of  the  Club  held  at  the  Grand  Pacific 
Hotel  on  the  2gth  day  of  December,  1888,  the  following  among 
other  proceedings  were  had: 

RESOLVED:  That  a  Committee  of  five  be  appointed  whose 
duties  shall  be  to  draft  a  Preface  or  Historical  account  of  the 
times  and  Biographical  History  of  Chicago's  Old  Tippecanoe's 
from  1836,  1840  and  including  1888,  the  same  to  be  placed  in  the 
Register  of  the  Club,  and  to  be  published  under  the  supervision 
of  said  Committee. 

Afterwards,  to-wit,  on  the  day  and  year  aforesaid,  the  Presi- 
dent appointed  the  following  persons  to  constitute  said  Com- 
mittee, to-wit:  Hon.  Cyrus  M.  Hawley,  Henry  Sayrs,  Albert 
Soper,  Wm.  H.  Bradley,  Wm.  S.  Elliott. 

Attest:  H.  M.  GARLICK,  Secretary. 

To  the  Tippc canoe  Club,  of  Chicago,  III: 

MR.  PRESIDENT,  LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN. — Your  Committee 
to  whom  was  referred  the  duty  to  supervise  the  publication  in 
book  form  of  biographies  of  the  members,  and  to  prepare  a  suitable 
introduction  explanatory  of  the  purposes  of  this  organization, 
have  the  pleasure  to  report,  that  they  have  received  and  exam- 
ined about  seventy-five  biographical  statements,  and  have  di- 
rected them  to  be  copied  in  proper  form  for  printing,  and  expect 
that  many  others  will  be  received  by  your  Committee. 

Your  Committee  further  report  that  they  have  prepared  the 


IO  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

said  introductory  explanation,  or  statement  of  tne  principles  and 
purposes  of  this  organization,  to  be  printed  with  said  biographies. 

C.  M.  HAWLEY, 
Chicago,  Illinois,  January  26,  A.D.,  1889.  Chairman. 

This  organization  was  formed  on  the  fifth  day  of  July,  A.  D., 
1888,  to  aid  in  the  election  of  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison  and  Levi 
P.  Morton  to  the  presidency  and  vice-presidency  of  the  United 
States  of  America.  It  consists  of  those  who  voted  for  Gen.  Wm. 
Henry  Harrison  for  president  in  1836,  and  those  who  voted  for 
and  aided  his  election  to  that  high  office  in  1840,  including  their 
sons,  daughters,  sons-in-law,  and  daughters-in-law. 

Ex-President  Gen.  Wm.  Henry  Harrison  was  born  in  Berkeley, 
Virginia,  near  Richmond,  on  the  9th  day  of  February,  A. D.,  1773. 
In  June,  1793,  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant,  he  was  appointed  aide- 
camp  to  General  Wayne,  though  not  a  graduate  from  a  military 
academy.  He  participated  in  the  battle  and  victory  against  the 
Indians  on  the  20th  of  August  of  that  year.  He  then  was  placed 
in  command  of  Fort  Washington,  and  continued  in  the  same 
command  until  1798,  when  he  resigned,  and  retired  to  private  life 
on  his  farm  at  North  Bend  in  Ohio.  But  he  was  not  permitted 
to  remain  long  in  retirement;  for  he  was  soon  after  appointed  by 
President  John  Adams,  secretary  of  the  Northwestern  territory, 
embracing  what  is  now  Indiana,  Illinois,  Michigan,  Iowa,  Wis- 
consin; and  soon  thereafter  Louisiana  was  added  thereto.  On 
the  3d  of  October,  1799,  the  first  legislative  assembly  of  the 
territory  elected  him  as  its  delegate  to  Congress,  which  office  he 
filled  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  constituents  and  with  credit  to 
himself.  In  1801,  he  was  appointed  Governor  and  Indian  Agent 
of  the  Territory.  In  1809,  he  negotiated  the  Fort  Wayne  Indian 
treaty.  But  the  wily  Tecumseh  and  his  brother  The  Prophet, 
were  not  disposed  to  comply  with  the  terms  of  the  treaty,  for 
they  were  intent  on  war.  They  made  the  attempt  to  combine  all 
the  Indian  tribes  and  forces  to  overpower,  kill,  or  drive  out  the 
settlers  from  the  territory,  notwithstanding  their  treaty  obliga- 
tions to  live  in  peace.  Their  efforts  to  enlist  all  the  tribes  failed, 
but  they  succeeded  in  gathering  a  formidable  army  of  braves  of 
nearly  1,000,  who  stealthily,  Indian  like,  rushed  with  a  yell  upon 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  II 

General  Harrison's  camp  before  the  break  of  day;  but  they  were 
repulsed.  The  battle  of  Tippecanoe  followed,  resulting  in  the 
death  of  Tecumseh,  and  the  triumph  of  General  Harrison  and 
his  army.  This  victory  excited  the  envy,  or  fears  of  the  British 
agents,  and  they  renewed  their  secret  efforts  to  incense  the 
Indians  against  the  United  States  more  openly,  and  to  boldly 
invade  the  territory.  In  addition  to  these  hostile  efforts,  on  the 
i6th  of  May,  1811,  the  British  ship  of  war,  Little  Belt,  fired  upon 
the  United  States  Frigate,  "  President,"  in  command  of  Commo- 
dore Rogers.  This  was  one  of  the  causes  of  the  war  of  1812  with 
Great  Britain,  in  which  Gen.  Wm.  H.  Harrison  was  distinguished 
as  one  of  the  ablest  of  our  commanders. 

As  commander  of  the  Northwestern  Army,  he  held  the  rank 
of  Brigadier  General.  In  March,  1813,  he  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Major  General.  In  1824,  he  was  elected  United  States 
Senator  from  Ohio,  and  was  appointed  chairman  of  the  military 
committee.  In  1828  he  was  appointed  by  President  John  Q. 
Adams,  Minister  Plenipotentiary  to  the  Republic  of  Columbia, 
and  was  received  with  marked  attentions  by  reason  of  his  distin- 
guished character  and  ability.  In  1836,  he  was  nominated  by  the 
Whigs  in  several  of  the  States  for  president,  but  was  defeated  by 
the  election  of  Martin  Van  Buren.  In  1840,  he  was  nominated 
at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  for  president  by  the  National  Convention  of 
the  Whig  party  on  a  Protective  Tariff  and  National  Currency 
Platform,  and  elected  by  an  overwhelming  majority,  and  was 
inaugurated  on  the  4th  of  March,  1841. 

We  voted  for,  and  aided  in  his  election,  because  he  repre- 
sented our  political  principles,  and  was  eminently  qualified  to 
discharge  the  duties  of  the  great  office. 

His  sentiments  of  protection  to  home  industries,  a  home 
market  for  our  productions,  the  development  of  our  natural  re- 
sources, in  order  to  furnish  remunerative  employment  for  our 
citizens,  to  the  end  that  they  become  prosperous  and  educated, 
not  only  in  the  common  schools  and  colleges,  but  in  schools  of 
all  kinds  of  industry;  and  his  doctrine  of  a  national  currency  for 
exchange  and  circulation  commanding  a  par  value  in  all  parts  of 
our  country,  drew  to  his  support  the  most  intelligent  of  our 


12  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

citizens.  At  the  time,  all  our  industries  were  suffering  from  the 
Calhoun  free-trade  slavery  extension  policy,  which  sought  to 
benefit  the  slave-holding  states  at  the  expense  of  the  free  states 
and  their  manufacturing  industries. 

General  Harrison's  popularity  was  so  great,  that,  when  he  left 
North  Bend  for  Washington,  his  passage  was  lined  by  hundreds 
of  thousands  of  admiring  citizens,  whose  plaudits  rang  out  as 
though  the  nation  was  celebrating  its  jubilee.  His  inaugural  was 
patriotic  and  impressive  in  vindicating  the  principles  involved  in 
his  election,  and  which  he  proposed  to  carry  out  during  his  ad- 
ministration. But  while  the  people  were  resting  in  his  purpose 
and  fidelity,  on  the  4th  of  April,  1841,  at  thirty  minutes  past  mid- 
night, he  was  struck  down  by  death,  like  the  great  oak  than  is 
scathed  and  leveled  by  the  lightning.  As  he  sank  into  the  silent 
depths,  he  uttered  this  patriotic  injunction,  intending  it  for  the 
vice-president;  "I  wish  you  to  understand  the  true  principles  of 
the  government.  I  wish  them  carried  out.  I  ask  no  more." 
His  every  official  act  in  war  and  in  peace  shed  glory  upon  our 
nation. 

His  humanity  on  the  field  of  battle  is  illustrated  in  his  order 
directing  his  troops  to  take  a  town  that  was  opposing  our  force. 
"Go!  "  he  said,  "  and  take  the  town.  But  let  an  account  of  mur- 
dered innocence  be  opened  in  the  records  of  heaven  against  our 
enemies  alone.  The  American  soldier  will  follow  the  example 
of  his  government,  and  the  sword  of  the  one  will  not  be  raised 
against  the  fallen  and  helpless,  nor  the  gold  of  the  other  be  paid 
for  the  scalps  of  a  massacred  enemy." 

At  the  date  of  the  inauguration  of  General  Harrison  in  1841, 
the  population  of  the  United  States  was  about  18,000,000  and  the 
census  now  soon  to  be  taken  will  show  that  under  the  wise  and 
beneficient  influence  of  our  institutions  we  will  have  reached 
sixty  millions.  In  her  material  prosperity,  intelligence,  institu- 
tions of  learning,  and  industrial  and  moral  development  our 
people  have  kept  pace  with  increase  of  population  and  territorial 
domain;  and  now,  we  present  to  the  world  a  monument  of  civil- 
ization and  culture  of  life,  energy,  fraternity,  power,  and  magnif- 
icence which  no  other  nation  has  attained. 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  13 

Ancient  Egypt,  Greece,  and  Rome  were  once  the  glory  of  the 
world;  but  to-day  they  are  the  monuments  of  death,  Our  gov- 
ernment being  of,  by,  and  for  the  people,  it  is  considerate,  wise, 
just,  liberal,  and  strong  with  the  people.  The  cohesive  element 
of  equality  and  unity,  qualifies  them  to  wield  their  power  wisely, 
and  to  fill  all  stations,  official  and  others,  with  ability  and  effi- 
ciency. This  is  the  natural  sequence  to  the  enfranchisement  of 
the  people  with  free  conscience,  free  speech,  free  soil,  free  labor, 
free  men,  free  votes,  and  an  honest  count.  No  other  people  or 
government  ever  presented  such  a  unity  in  equality.  All  the 
gates  and  avenues  to  success  are  wide  open  to  all  persons  and 
classes;  and  every  entry-port  is  fortified,  if  not  by  iron-clad  forts 
and  naval  batteries,  by  the  united  will  and  combined  energy  and 
action  of  a  free  and  determined  people. 

The  only  enthroned  despot  we  ever  had,  was  American  chattel 
slavery,  which,  by  its  inordinate  greed  for  dominion,  and  its 
treasonable  acts,  was  dethroned  and  put  to  death  by  the  sacrifices 
and  valor  of  the  loyal  people  supplemented  by  the  voice  and 
ballots  of  constitutional  reform,  and  its  oppressive  and  degrading 
remains  committed  to  their  grave  beyond  the  power  of  resurrec- 
tion. 

And  now,  while  we  are  not  an  ocean-bound  Republic,  though 
our  shore  is  washed  by  the  Atlantic,  Pacific,  Gulf  of  Mexico,  and 
our  northern  sisterhood  of  waters,  yet,  it  is  within  the  providence 
of  events,  by  the  voice  of  the  people  interested,  and  in  accord 
with  manifest  destiny,  that,  at  some  time  in  the  near  future,  our 
country  may  become  ocean-bound,  uniting  people  and  domain  in 
one  grand  Republican  empire,  under  one  flag,  and  moving  for- 
ward as  one  body,  like  the  billows  of  the  sea.  Such  a  govern- 
mental power,  united,  independent,  educated  and  harmonious, 
with  a  home  market  for  its  productions  in  all  the  lines  of  art, 
science,  agriculture,  manufacture,  and  raw  material,  would  assure 
prosperity  and  peace  at  home,  if  not  to  the  world  at  large. 

It  is  the  duty  of  our  state  and  national  legislative  assemblies 
to  aim  at  state  and  national  independence  in  all  branches  of 
development  and  industry,  to  the  end  that  the  people  have 
equal  opportunities,  and  are  educated  in  all  industries,  and  are 


14  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

able  to  provide  a  pleasant  home  for  themselves  and  families.  In 
this  day  of  progressive  enterprise,  and  the  ambition  of  nations, 
education  and  skilled  labor  in  all  possible  branches  of  industry, 
are  demanded  for  the  safety  of  the  state,  and  the  protection  of 
the  rights  of  the  people,  or  else,  we  will  become  weak  and  de- 
pendent. 

We  had  a  painful  illustration  of  this  condition  when  the  great 
rebellion  in  1861  broke  in  upon  our  fancied  security,  and  found 
us  strong  only  in  patriotic  numbers,  fired  with  zeal  and  courage; 
but  wholly  destitute  of  arms,  munitions  and  other  equipments. 
Our  forts  were,  also,  either  filled  with  traitors,  or  dismantled  and 
destitute  of  provisions,  our  ships  of  war  unseaworthy,  or  in  far 
distant  waters,  our  arsenals  denuded,  and  our  manufacturing 
industries  in  want  of  skilled  labor,  and  were  therefore  inadequate 
to  supply  the  needs  of  the  Government  in  that  emergency. 
Hence,  it  was  impossible  to  move  against  the  rebellion  at  once 
aggressively  without  involving  our  army  in  a  sea  of  blood  to  no 
purpose.  It  was  fortunate  for  the  integrity  of  the  union  that 
the  rebels  were  in  no  better  condition  to  destroy  the  union  than 
we  were  to  maintain  it.  But,  if  we  had  then  also  been  con- 
fronted by  England  or  France  in  support  of  the  rebel  forces,  the 
union  might  have  been  overthrown,  slavery  extended  and  per- 
petuated, foreign  goods  found  a  free  market,  and  Mexico  and 
Cuba,  at  an  early  date  would  probably  have  constituted  integral 
parts  of  the  slave-holder's  "  Confederate  States  of  America." 

The  cause  of  these  difficulties  in  equiping  our  forces,  and  of 
this  great  exposure,  is  directly  chargeable  to  the  Calhoun  policy 
of  slavery  in  union  with  free  trade.  The  Protective  tariff  policy 
of  Gen.  Wm.  H.  Harrison,  which  was  re-ordained  in  his  election 
by  the  people  in  1840,  and  became  the  law  in  1842,  produced 
changes  under  which  the  country  became  once  again  prosperous. 
Unfortunately  the  sudden  demise  of  the  President  left  his  party 
compatriots  entangled  by  the  singular  estrangement  of  John 
Tyler,  who  succeeded  to  the  office  of  Chief  Magistrate.  In  the 
meantime,  the  old  scheme  of  John  C.  Calhoun,  like  the  "Mystery 
of  Iniquity,"  was  industriously  at  work  to  circumvent  what  the 
votes  of  the  people  accomplished  in  1840,  and  finding  in  Polk  and 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB    CHICAGO.  15 

Dallas  fit  agents  for  the  purpose,  they  were  elected  in  1844,  and 
well  did  they  perform  the  part  assigned  them  to  do,  and  the  events 
which  followed  showed  what  they  were  to  do  by  what  followed, 
to  wit:  The  repeal  of  the  Protective  tarriff  of  1842,  by  the 
annexation  of  Texas,  by  declaring  war  against  Mexico,  by  the 
extension  of  the  domain  of  slavery;  and  as  a  consequence  by  the 
enactment  of  the  so-called  compromise  in  the  interest  of  slavery, 
in  1850,  the  repeal  of  the  Missouri  compromise,  which  was  in  the 
interest  of  freedom,  in  1854,  and  the  slave-holders  rebellion  in  1861. 
This  last  blow  at  freedom,  instead  of  breaking  the  loyal  back, 
roused  to  action  loyal  millions;  but  not  until  Fort  Sumpter  was  fired 
upon  by  rebel  batteries  were  our  forces  called  forth  into  lines  of 
battle,  and  Congress  summoned  in  special  session  to  meet  the 
emergency,  which  immediately  enacted  a  Protective  tarriff,  pro- 
vided for  a  National  currency  and  adopted  other  measures  to  put 
down  the  rebellion.  But  it  took  about  two  years  before  our 
forces  were  prepared  to  move  effectively  by  sea,  rivers  and  land 
against  the  enemy,  but  when  they  were  ready  and  did  move,  they 
were  victorious.  But  by  the  prolongation  of  the  war  and  the 
pressure  of  circumstances,  and  the  demands  of  the  people,  the 
president,  as  commander  in  chief,  as  a  war  measure,  issued  the 
Proclamation  of  Emancipation  of  all  slaves  within  the  limits  of 
those  states  and  parts  of  states  which  were  in  rebellion.  This  was 
the  severest  of  all  blows  to  the  rebellion:  for  it  not  only  took 
from  it  needed  support,  but  enlisted  in  the  service  of  the  Union 
army  two  hundred  thousand  colored  soldiers  who  had  been  slaves, 
and  they  proved  themselves  as  brave  as  they  were  true.  And 
beside,  the  effect  of  the  protective  tariff  was  immediate.  Manu- 
facturing industries  were  revived,  and  new  and  more  extensive 
enterprises  entered  upon.  Ships  of  war,  forts,  and  arsenals  were 
constructed,  skilled  laborers  increased  in  numbers,  and  although 
the  war  expenditures  were  counted  in  billions,  our  loyal  people 
were  prosperous;  and  when  the  war  was  ended,  our  soldiers,  when 
they  returned  to  civil  life,  found  these  increased  facilities,  and 
therefore  plenty  of  remunerative  employment,  and  our  national 
debt  in  process  of  rapid  extinction. 

But  not  content  with  such  achievements  and  financial  success, 


l6  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

the  Democratic  party,  still  hungering  after  the  leaks  and  onions 
of  free-trade,  caused  Mr.  Cleveland,  in  his  annual  message  in 
1887,  to  recommend  Congress  to  repeal  the  protective  tariff,  and 
return  to  the  Calhoun  free-trade  policy,  which  was  suited  to  the 
South  only  while  slavery  existed.  In  pursuance  of  this  recom- 
mendation the  Mills  free-trade  bill  was  finally  passed  through  the 
Lower  House,  made  the  cardinal  doctrine  of  the  Democratic 
platform,  Mr.  Cleveland  was  again  nominated  for  president,  and 
he,  in  no  equivocal  terms,  accepted  the  honor,  re-affirming  the 
sentiments  of  his  former  free-trade  message,  as  well  as  the  plat- 
form adopted  in  conformity  with  it. 

This  old  issue  roused  the  Republican  party,  which  in  national 
convention  in  Chicago  in  1888,  nominated  General  Benjamin 
Harrison  and  Levi  P.  Morton  as  its  candidates  for  president  and 
vice-president.  This  called  out  the  Tippecanoe  guard  of  1836 
and  1840,  as  before  stated,  which  labored  and  voted  to  elect 
them,  because  they  represented  the  political  principles  of  the 
guard,  which  were  antagonized  by  the  British  free-trade  doctrines 
of  the  Democratic  party  platform.  And  we  unhesitatingly  affirm 
that  no  more  capable  and  worthy  men,  and  representatives  of 
true  Republicanism,  of  home  industries,  of  free  votes,  and  true 
counts,  are  to  be  found  in  the  nation. 

General  Benjamin  Harrison  entered  the  military  service  of 
the  United  States  as  a  volunteer,  and  raised  Company  "A"  of  the 
Seventieth  Indiana  Regiment,  and  was  commissioned  captain  by 
Gov.  Oliver  P.  Morton,  July  2,  1862,  and  at  once  proceeded  to 
the  front  with  hL  regiment,  and  from  that  time  to  the  close  of 
the  war,  he  was  foremost  in  every  battle  in  which  he  was  en- 
gaged. Indeed,  his  bravery  was  so  conspicuous  that  he  did  not 
seem  to  fear  personal  danger,  however  greatly  exposed.  His 
only  care  was  to  secure  victory  in  the  interests  of  a  peace  founded 
in  union,  liberty,  justice.  Such  patriotism,  ability  and  valor  was 
soon  recognized,  and  he,  as  a  consequence,  was  promoted  from 
rank  to  rank,  to  that  of  Major-General  of  Volunteers.  While  he 
was  a  strict  disciplinarian,  he  was  considerate  and  kind  to  his 
command — frequently,  when  he  found  a  soldier  weary  and  ex- 
hausted by  long  marches,  mounted  him  on  his  own  horse,  while 
he  himself  marched  on  foot. 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  I/ 

When  the  Union  army  was  triumphant,  and  the  Rebel  army 
disbanded  by  surrender,  and  Jefferson  Davis  a  prisoner  in  Fort- 
ress Monroe,  Gen.  Harrison,  comprehending  fully  the  necessities 
of  the  situation,  advocated  universal  emancipation  of  the  remain- 
ing slaves,  and  of  universal  enfranchisement  of  all  citizens  by 
constitutional  law.  Reconstruction  of  the  Union  on  principles 
short  of  these  would  not  comport  with  a  truly  Republican  gov- 
ernment of,  and  by  the  people  of  the  United  States.  Such  an  en- 
franchisement alone  constitutes  a  true  Republican  government. 
Anything  short  of  it  is  an  oligarchy  of  either  small  or  enlarged 
representation  in  government  of  its  citizens;  but  nevertheless,  it 
is  limited  in  rights  and  privileges  to  the  exclusion  of  some  of  its 
citizens. 

If  anything  is  now  lacking  it  is  the  want  of  a  national 
free  school  system,  obligatory  in  character,  to  make  education 
universal,  including  in  its  curriculum  the  education  of  head, 
hands  and  conscience  in  every  industrial  pursuit  and  moral  ex- 
cellence. Equal  opportunities  cannot  be  extended  to  all  classes 
of  citizens  short  of  this;  nor  can  the  nation  and  government  be 
said  to  be  independent  unless  our  agricultural,  horticultural,  me- 
chanical and  scientific  schools  are  universally  distributed,  and 
become  inexhaustible  fountains  of  science,  art,  and  of  skilled 
master  mechanics.  When  such  a  summit  of  independence  is  at- 
tained, with  equality  before  the  law,  and  when  the  enfranchized 
can  freely  cast  their  votes  according  to  their  will,  and  when  their 
free  votes  are  truly  counted,  our  people  and  government  can 
then  be  said  to  be  independent  in  fact  as  in  name. 

General  Harrison,  when  he  recently  addressed  "  The  Grand 
Army  of  Veterans,"  gave  utterance  to  his  sentiments  in  eloquent 
words,  as  follows:  "  I  would  like  to  hear  a  bugle  call  through- 
out the  land  demanding  a  pure  ballot.  This  is  a  matter  above 
and  beyond  any  question  of  partizanship,  and  I  feel  that  I  ex- 
press the  sentiment  of  every  comrade  present  when  I  declare 
that  a  free  ballot,  honestly  expressed,  and  fairly  counted,  is  the 
main  safeguard  of  our  institutions,  and  its  suppression,  under  any 
pretext  whatever,  cannot  be  tolerated."  And  he  is  as  emphatic 
in  his  advocacy  of  methods  to  promote  general  progress — the  de- 


18  THE    OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB.    CHICAGO. 

velopment  of  our  natural  resources,  the  protection  Oi  our  home 
industries,  the  education  of  all  classes  in  the  schools — including 
science,  art,  mechanical  and  hand  industries;  and  that  of  furnish- 
ing to  all  equal  opportunities,  and  remunerative  employment  so 
far  as  possible.  This  "  bugle  call  "  of  General  Harrison  is  now 
sounding  and  echoes  "  throughout  the  land,"  and  re-echoes  from 
every  hamlet  and  heart  loyal  to  the  principles  of  states  and 
national  constitutions,  and  unless  heeded  it  will  reverberate  in 
thunder  tones,  and  wake  the  sacrificial  hosts  of  veterans  who  now 
sleep  in  rest,  that  they  may  again  respond  to  this  "  bugle  call  " 
to  demand  a  pure  ballot  and  an  honest  count. 

Our  Tippecanoe  Club  has  responded  to  this  "bugle  call/'  and 
to  the-sentiments  of  the  Republican  platform  of  1888.  This,  and 
similar  organizations,  are  to  be  congratulated  that  to  some  extent 
they  have  been  important  factors  in  the  election  of  General  Ben- 
jamin Harrison  and  Levi  P.  Morton  to  the  presidency  and  vice- 
presidency  of  the  United  States. 


of  the  First  Jifleetirvg  of  the  Old  Jippecanoe  Club. 


On  Monday,  July  9,  1888,  there  convened  16  veterans  at  the 
Grand  Pacific  Hotel  pursuant  to  a  published  call  made  on  the 
day  previous  requesting  all  persons  who  voted  for  Wm.  Henry 
Harrison  in  1840  to  report  themselves  or  send  in  their  names  to 
be  registered  as  members.  The  purpose  of  this  meeting  was  for 
the  organization  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  to  support  General 
Benj.  Harrison  for  President  of  the  United  States  and  Levi  P. 
Morton  for  Vice-President. 

The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  Enos  Slosson,  who  stated 
its  object.  The  first  business  being  the  election  of  officers  for  and 
during  the  Presidential  Campaign,  the  following  gentlemen  were 
elected:  Dr.  D.  S.  Smith,  President;  Enos  Slosson,  Vice-Presi- 
dent; Benj.  Ackley,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

On  motion  of  L.  W.  Garlick,  a  committee  of  three  was 
appointed  to  draft  a  Constitution  and  By-Laws  and  submit  same 
at  the  next  meeting,  and  A.  N.  Raymond,  Enos  Slosson  and  W. 
A.  Osborn  were  appointed  such  committee. 

LIST   OF    ENROLLED   MEMBERS   AT   THIS    MEETING: 

Enos  Slosson,  aged  71,  native  of  Elkland,  Pa. 
Alanson  N.  Raymond,  aged  70,  native  of  N.  Y. 
Henry  Tanner  aged  75,  native  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Benj.  Ackley,  aged  72,  from  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
R.  G.  Askin,  aged  71,  native  of  Huron  Co.,  Ohio. 
Bernard  Wegsilbaum,  aged  78,  native  of  Phila.,  Pa. 
J.  H.  Colbarn,  aged  72,  native  of  Columbus,  Ohio. 
Daniel  True,  aged  76,  native  of  Albany,  N.  Y. 
W.  A.  Osborne,  aged  69,  native  of  Lee,  Mass. 


2O  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

W.  B.  Ayers,  aged  69,  native  of  Utica,  N  Y 

P.  W.  Blodgett,  aged  79,  native  of  Groton,  N=  Y. 

Dr.  David  S.  Smith,  aged  72, native  of  Camden,  Gloucester 

Co.,  N.J. 

R.  P.  Pate,  aged  71,  native  of  Belfast,  Maine. 
Calvin  Gifford,  aged  71,  native  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
L.  W.  Garlick,  aged  73,  native  of  Kent  Co.,  Conn. 
Walter  S.  Hinckle,  aged  73,  native  of  Buckland,  Mass. 
Adjourned  to  July  16. 


JHeadquarters  of  the  Old  Jippecarvoe  Club. 


GRAND   PACIFIC  HOTEL. 


Extract  From  the   GKicago  Tribvme, 

OF  JULY    1O,    1888. 


THE    TIPPECANOE    CLUB. 

Organized  by  men  who  voted  for  Harrison  in  1840. — It  starts 
with  sixteen  members  and  its  motto  is  "Tippecanoe  and  Morton 
Too" — Dr.  David  S.  Smith  is  president — an  idea  that  originated 
with  Enos  Slosson,  Esq.,  and  which  will  cut  some  figure  in  the 
November  campaign. 

The  refrain  of  the  happiest  campaign  song  ever  written  has 
been  amended  officially.  The  men,  who  in  1840  swept  on  to 
victory  singing: 

TIPPECANOE   AND    TYLER   TOO 

will  enter  the  list  in  1888  shouting,  with  voices  a  little  tremulous, 
it  is  true,  but  none  the  less  instinct  with  conviction — 

TIPPECANOE   AND    MORTON   TOO. 

It  was  all  arranged  last  night  at  the  Grand  Pacific,  and  a  large 
share  of  the  credit  for  the  scheme  belongs  to  Enos  Slosson,  who 
is  a  staunch  Harrison  man.  The  other  day  he  fell  to  wondering 
what  he  could  do  in  a  modest  way,  becoming  an  old  gentleman 
of  moderate  means  and  quiet  disposition,  to  place  a  historical 
name  again  in  fitting  company  in  the  roll  of  presidents.  This 
thought  reminded  him  that  his  first  vote  helped  to  elect  William 
Henry  Harrison  in  1840.  Then  he  remembered  that  two  or  three 
old  gentlemen  in  Chicago  of  his  acquaintance  had  always  voted 
the  republican  ticket,  and  straightway  it  occurred  to  him  that  if 
all  the  old  chaps  in  the  United  States  who  had  voted  for  Harrison 
in  1840  would  organize  and  go  on  record  for  Harrison  in  1888  the 
example  would  at  least  be  edifying.  He  consulted  the  other 


22  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

two  or  three,  and  the  result  was  the  notice  calling  last  night's 
meeting. 

The  notice  was  short,  but  response  was  prompt.  Fifteen 
jolly,  retrospective  old  boys  came  early,  organized,  appointed 
proper  committees,  and  adjourned  until  next  Monday  at  3:30 
P.  M. 

Dr.  David  S.  Smith  was  elected  temporary  chairman,  and  the 
old  boys  would  make  him  no  concessions  on  any  account. 

A  speech!  a  speech!  they  cried. 

Dr.  Smith  was  abundantly  equal  to  the  occasion,  but  several 
of  the  old  boys  had  pronounced  that  their  daughters  or  nieces 
drew  the  line  at  latch  keys,  so  he  cut  it  short. 

"I  appreciate  the  honor  you  have  conferred  upon  me,"  he 
said.  "  Not  many  men  have  been  equally  distinguished.  To  have 
lived  forty-eight  years  to  vote  for  a  second  Harrison  after  living 
twenty-one  before  voting  for  the  first  president  of  that  name,  is 
an  honor  and  a  distintion  also.  In  1840  we  elected  our  Harrison; 
let  us  do  what  we  can  to  further  the  same  worthy  cause  in  1888." 
(Applause  and  cheers.) 

Enos  Slosson,  Alanson  N.  Raymond  and  Daniel  True  were 
appointed  a  committee  on  nominations.  They  reported  in  favor 
of  Dr.  Smith  for  president,  Enos  Slosson  for  vice-president  and 
Benjamin  Ackley  for  secretary  and  treasurer,  and  these  gentle- 
men were  elected  by  acclimation.  When  Messrs  Raymond, 
Slosson  and  Osborne  had  been  elected  a  committee  on  resolutions 
with  instructions  to  report  next  Monday  afternoon,  the  meeting 
was  adjourned. 

Several  of  the  old  fellows  had  their  sons  with  them.  One  was 
accompanied  by  his  grandaughter  and  one  by  his  niece.  The 
male  members  of  the  second  generation  manifested  a  strong  de- 
sire to  be  admitted  to  the  membership. 

"This  organization  will  be  effective  because  it  is  unique,"  said 
the  old  boys.  "  If  we  let  you  young  chaps  in  we  shall  degenerate 
and  sacrifice  our  effectiveness.  It  must  be  a  club  of  veterans." 

"Well,  that  settles  it,"  said  a  member  of  the  second  genera- 
tion. "We  shall  have  to  organize  as  sons  of  veterans." 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  23 

The  oldest  member  of  the  organization  so  far  is  P.  M.  Blod- 
gett.  He  is  seventy-nine  and  looks  seventy. 

"  I  voted  for  two  presidents  before  Harrison,"  he  said,  "but  I 
have  forgotten  their  names.  They  had  to  be  Whigs,  though," 
the  old  fellow  added,  with  a  chuckle. 

It  is  expected  that  William  Skinner,  aged  eighty-four,  will  be- 
come a  member,  as  well  as  a  great  many  others  who  were  unable 
to  attend  last  night. 

"  What  shall  we  name  our  club?  "  asked  one. 

"Tippecanoe! "  answered  a  chorus  of  ready  voices. 

"And  what  will  its  motto  be?  " 

"  Tippecanoe  and  Morton,  too." 


Gorvtirvuatiorv  of  J^iroites. 


The  Club  met  pursuant  to  adjournment  at  the  Grand  Pacific 
Hotel,  on  July  16,  1888.  Enos  Slosson,  chairman  of  committee 
appointed  to  draft  constitution  and  by-laws,  reported  viz: 

First,  this  organization  shall  be  known  as  the  Old  Tippecanoe 
Club,  of  Chicago. 

Second,  the  membership  shall  be  limited  to  those  who  assisted 
or  voted  in  1840  for  Gen.  Wm.  Henry  Harrison,  including  also 
their  wives,  their  sons,  sons-in-law,  their  daughters  and  their 
daughters-in-law. 

Third,  the  object  of  this  organization  shall  be  the  furtherance 
of  the  election  of  the  nominees  of  the  Republican  National  Con- 
vention of  1888,  viz:  Benj.  Harrison,  grandson  of  the  "Tippe- 
canoe "  Harrison  of  1840,  and  Levi  P.  Morton,  of  New  York. 

Fourth,  the  officers  of  the  Club  shall  consist  of  a  President, 
First  and  Second  Vice-Presidents,  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and 
Sergeant-at-Arms.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President  to  pre- 
side at  the  meetings. 

Fifth,  the  regular  meetings  shall  be  held  on  the  first  and  third 
Saturday,  at  3  p.  M.,  of  each  month  until  election;  but  a  special 
meeting  may  be  called  by  any  three  members  when  any  import- 
ant business  of  the  Club  demands  it.  Twenty  members  assem- 
bled shall  constitute  a  quorum  to  do  business.  One  or  more 
members  shall  have  power  to  adjourn  from  time  to  time. 

Sixth,  the  rules  of  order  shall  be  the  same  as  those  governing 
the  Senate  of  the  United  States.  Officers  here  elected  will  con- 
tinue in  office  during  the  campaign  of  1888,  or  until  their  success- 
ors are  elected  or  appointed.  In  absence  of  the  President  the 
First  Vice-President  shall  preside.  If  both  the  President  and  First 


OLD    TIPFECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  25 

Vice- President  are  absent  the  second  Vice  President  shall  per- 
form the  duties  of  the  President.  The  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
shall  keep  a  record  of  all  meetings,  serve  notices  on  members  and 
perform  other  duties  peitaining  to  the  office.  He  shall  also  re- 
ceive and  disburse  all  moneys  collected  and  expended  for  the 
authorized  use  of  the  Club.  The  Sergeant  at  Arms  shall  assist  the 
President  in  maintaining  order  and  performing  such  other  duties 
as  may  be  consistent  with  his  office  under  the  direction  of  the 
presiding  officer. 

Believing  as  your  Committee  does  that  the  fruits  of  the  work 
to  be  done  by  this  organization  will  be  felt  by  the  young  and 
vigorous  elements  in  this  campaign,  we  pledge  ourselves  to  assist 
and  stimulate  all  persons  who  are  known  to  have  voted  and  as- 
sisted in  the  election  of  Old  Tippecanoe  in  1840  to  join  our  ranks 
and  go  hand  in  hand  to  a  triumphant  victory  with  Young  Tippe- 
canoe and  Morton  too. 

On  July  21,  the  Club  convened  at  its  headquarters.  The 
President  in  the  Chair.  The  first  meeting  was  the  unfinished 
business  of  the  last  meeting,  viz:  Election  of  second  Vice-Presi- 
dent  and  Sergeant  at  Arms. 

Whereupon  R.  T.  Bennett  was  elected  second  Vice-President 
and  C.  R.  Vandercook  Sergeant  at  Arms.  Dr.  D.  S.  Smith,  Enos 
Slosson  and  A  N.  Raymond  were  appointed  a  Committee  to  pro- 
vide an  appropriate  badge  for  the  veterans.  R.  T.  Bennett  and 
M.  L.  Prince  were  appointed  to  secure  a  Glee  Club  to  attend  the 
meetings  and  furnish  Club  with  Campaign  Songs.  Dr.  D.  S.  Smith 
here  offered  the  following  resolutions  which  were  unanimously 
adopted.  Resolved:  That  we  tender  to  Col.  John  B.  Drake,  pro- 
prietor of  the  Grand  Pacific  Hotel,  our  most  cordial  thanks  for 
his  generous  hospitality  to  us  as  a  body,  and  placing  us  under 
still  additional  obligations  by  furnishing  us  larger  quarters, 
sufficiant  to  accomodating  the  quadruple  veterans  of  1840.  Re- 
solved: That  we  tender  to  the  general  Chicago  Press  our  thanks 
for  the  notices  of  our  assemblages  heretofore  through  their  able 
and  efficient  reporters,  and  invite  their  future  attendance  and  favor- 
able consideration.  The  Treasurer  reported  $6.00  on  hand.  Many 
names  were  here  added  to  the  Club.  Adjourned. 


26  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

The  Club  met  at  its  headquarters  on  August  4,  the  first  Vice- 
President  in  the  chair.  Minutes  read  and  approved.  Committee 
on  badges  asked  for  and  received  further  time  to  report.  Com- 
mittee on  music  reported  that  a  Glee  Club  would  be  present  at 
the  next  meeting  and  furnish  music.  On  motion  of  J.  H.  Gill,  of 
Mount  Pleasant,  Ohio,  it  was  voted  that  the  officers  of  this  Club 
be  authorized  to  enroll  all  applicants,  if  by  letter  or  in  person, 
who  voted  for  Harrison  in  1840,  or  assisted  in  that  campaign. 

On  motion  of  the  President  it  was  voted  that  the  Secretary  be 
invited  to  procure  a  suitable  book  for  the  purpose  of  giving  each 
member  the  opportunity  of  recording  his  authograph,  his  birth 
place,  his  residence,  where  he  voted  or  assisted  in  1836  or  1840, 
at  the  election  of  Gen.  Harrison,  with  the  request  that  at  the 
closing  of  the  present  campaign  it  be  placed  in  the  vaults  of  the 
Historical  Society  of  this  City.  Enos  Slosson,  Benj.  Ackley  and 
Dr.  Smith  were  appointed  a  Committee  to  confer  with  Mr.  Drake 
with  reference  to  present  headquarters.  Several  spirited  speeches 
were  made  by  veterans.  On  motion  of  Mr.  Bennett  the  Secretary 
was  authorized  to  have  printed  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  so 
that  each  member  might  have  a  copy.  Treasurer  reported  $20.25 
on  hand.  A  large  number  joined  the  club.  Adjourned. 

The  regular  semi-monthly  meeting  occurred  August  18.  The 
first  Vice-President  in  the  Chair,  minutes  of  last  meeting  read, 
corrected  and  approved.  Mr.  Ackley  reported  that  the  book  of 
record  was  ordered  and  would  be  submitted  to  the  next  meeting. 
Mr.  R.  J.  Bennett  addressing  the  chair  appropriatedly  urged  the 
importance  of  swelling  the  ranks  of  the  Club  and  then  offered 
the  following:  Resolved,  that  the  members  of  the  Tippecanoe 
Club  who  voted  for  Wm.  H.  Harrison  in  1836  and  1840  for  Presi- 
dent, and  intend  voting  for  Gen.  Ben.  Harrison  the  grandson  of 
"Old  Tip"  in  1888  for  the  same  office,  do  most  cordially  invite  all 
others,  who  voted  for  any  other  candidate  in  1836  and  1840  and 
vote  at  the  coming  election  to  join  this  Club.  A  spirited  discus- 
sion followed  by  Jas.  H.  Gill,  Philip  Burroughs,  L.  W.  Garlick, 
Judge  Hawley,  M.  L.  Prince  and  others,  whereupon  Judge  Hawley 
moved  amendments  to  the  resolutions  as  follows:  Be  invited  to 
meet  with  and  co-operate  with  us  during  the  present  campaign. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  2/ 

The  resolution  passed  as  amended.  Mr.  Noah  Scott  and  others 
recited  their  reminiscenses  of  1840  and  the  good  old  times.  Judge 
Hawley  after  finishing  his  able  criticism  of  the  Mills  tariff  bill 
extended  a  cordial  invitation  to  the  members  of  the  Club  to  meet 
with  the  Hyde  Park  veterans  in  their  Hall  on  the  corner  of  53d. 
Street  and  Jefferson  Avenue,  on  August  25th.  Accepted.  It 
was  voted  that  the  Glee  Club  be  invited  to  be  present  August 
25th.  at  Hyde  Park.  Eight  new  names  were  added  to  the  Club. 
Adjourned. 

The  regular  meeting  was  held  on  September  I.  The  Presi- 
dent on  taking  the  chair  remarked  that  while  east  recently  he 
purchased  a  copy  of  rules  for  the  conduct  of  public  meetings, 
which  he  laid  on  his  table  before  him  saying,  he  proposed  to  be 
governed  by  them. 

A  poem  dedicated  to  the  Club  by  Clara  Howard  of  Harvey, 
Wisconsin,  was  read  and  received  with  cheers,  and  the  reporters 
were  requested  to  print  same  in  their  respective  papers. 

The  committee  on  badges  having  failed  to  act,  Enos  Slosson, 
Col.  Mitchell  and  P.  Burroughs  were  appointed  on  committee 
on  badges  to  report  at  next  meeting.  John  Gage  of  Massachu- 
setts, made  a  donation  of  $10  for  defraying  expenses  of  music, 
Amount  collected  $16.  Resolved:  That  the  President  of  the 
Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  1840  be  requested  to  appoint  thirteen 
members  of  this  club  including  its  officers,  who  are  hereby  in- 
structed to  convey  our  congratulations  to  the  nominee  of  the 
Republican  National  Convention,  and  ask  him  to  deliver  his  first 
speech  in  the  city  of  his  nomination,  before  the  Old  Tippecanoe 
Club,  who  voted  in  1840  for  the  first  Gen.  Harrison,  and  now  stand 
pledged  to  vote  for  Gen.  Harrison  of  1888  for  President  of  the 
first  republic  on  earth.  Also  to  confer  with  Levi  P.  Morton  and 
ask  him  to  accept  an  invitation  to  be  present  at  the  same  time. 
The  following  were  appointed  said  committee:  Judge  Hawley, 
General  Hinckley,  H.  H.  Williams,  Thomas  Mitchell,  Captain 
Duray,  P.  Burroughs,  and  the  officers  of  the  Club.  John  C.  Gage, 
Thomas  Mitchell,  and  others,  addressed  the  Club,  awaking  old 
time  enthusiasm.  Many  new  members.  Adjourned. 

The  Club  duly  assembled  September  15.     Minutes  of  the  last 


28  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

meeting  read  and  approved.  Dr.  Smith  called  the  attention  of 
the  Club  to  an  old  silken  banner  which  stood  against  the  wall. 
"  It  is  the  property,"  said  he,  "of  Rev.  L.  P.  Mercer,  whose  father 
carried  it  in  Pennsylvania  in  the  campaign  of  1840,  and  had  kindly 
offered  to  loan  it  to  the  Club."  The  Doctor  suggested  that  as  the 
owner  values  the  Banner  highly  it  be  left  in  owners'  care.  Mr.  C. 
R.Van  Dercook  moved  that  L.  P.  Mercer  be  made  an  honorary 
member  of  the  Club  and  carry  the  banner  in  the  parade.  Carried 
unanimously. 

The  committee  on  badges  reported  "the  badges  ready,"  as 
they  were  exceedingly  appropriate  they  were  duly  accepted  and 
the  committee  discharged.  The  committee  on  invitations  was 
also  discharged.  The  treasurer  submitted  his  report  which  was 
accepted. 

On  motion  of  Mr.Van  Dercookit  was  resolved  that  the  chair 
appoint  a  committee  of  three  whose  duties  shall  be  to  act  as  the 
financial  committee,  to  solicit  subscriptions  to  meet  the  ex- 
penses of  the  club  and  to  audit  all  bills  and  pass  on  same  before 
payment,  carried.  The  president  announced  that  he  would  name 
the  committee  at  the  next  meeting  or  through  the  press. 

Mrs.  Archibald  Harrison  a  sister-in-law  of  General  Harrison 
was  introduced  to  the  club,  made  a  few  remarks,  was  presented 
with  a  badge  and  enrolled  an  honorary  member.  The  following 
named  gentlemen  then  addressed  the  club:  Wm,  Hyde,  George 
Paine  Harris,  Mr.  Burroughs  and  Mr.  Clement.  Action  upon  a 
motion  by  Judge  Hawley  relative  to  visiting  General  Harrison  at 
Indianapolis  on  October  6,  was  deferred  until  the  next  meeting. 
Adjourned  for  one  week. 

At  the  meeting  of  September  22,  Rev.  Henry  L.  Hammond 
at  the  request  of  the  president  offered  prayer.  The  president 
then  named  the  following  as  the  finance  committee:  Albert 
Soper,  Wm.  Ripley  and  C.  R.Van  Dercook, and  announced  as  the 
committee  on  invitations,  Enos  Slosson,  Judge  Van  Higgins  and 
Thomas  B.  Bryan,  whereupon  the  committee  on  finance  made  its 
report  through  Mr.  Ripley,  which  was  accepted.  The  matter  of 
the  quartette  club  was  referred  to  the  finance  committee  with 
power  to  act.  Mr.  Ackley  moved  that  the  finance  committee 


THE    OLD    TJPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  2Q 

be  instructed  to  procure  the  necessary  music  for  the  club.  After 
considerable  discussion  it  was  moved  that  the  club  visit  Indiana- 
polis September  29.  Carried  forty  voting  to  go.  Mr.  Vander- 
cook  offered  to  furnish  a  band  of  music  for  the  occasion.  Col. 
Mitchell  moved  that  a  vote  of  thanks  be  given  by  this  club  to  the 
Hyde  Park  League  for  their  invitations  and  our  appreciation  of 
their  courtesies  and  that  they  be  most  cordially  invited  to  go 
with  us  on  September  29,  carried. 

The  regular  meeting  of  the  club  was  called  to  order  October  6. 
The  president  reported  that  some  fifty  or  sixty  members  of  the 
club  made  the  excursion  to  Indianapolis  and  paid  their  respects 
to  Gen.  Harrison  and  had  a  most  enjoyable  time  and  all  had  re- 
turned safely  to  their  homes.  Enos  Slosson  offered  the  following 
resolutions:  Resolved,  that  we  tender  our  heartiest  thanks  to 
our  fellow  townsman  George  M.  Pullman  for  the  use  of  his  beau- 
tiful and  convenient  palace  car  so  opportunely  furnished  and  fully 
equipped  for  our  comfort  without  change  while  the  Old  Tippe- 
canoe  club  was  making  its  first  pleasant  and  satisfactory  call 
upon  the  next  president  of  the  United  States — Benjamin  Harrison. 
Resolved,  that  thanks  be  also  extended  to  the  Second  Regiment 
Band  for  the  music  furnished  on  the  occasion  of  our  late  trip  to 
and  from  Indianapolis,  also  for  the  evening  concert  given  by 
them  from  the  balcony  of  the  New  Dennison  House  in  Indiana- 
polis, adopted. 

The  president  intimated  that  contributions  would  be  in  order. 
The  following  gentlemen  addressed  the  meeting:  General  A.  M. 
Stout,  Colonel  Wiley  S.  Scribner  and  Henry  Sayrs.  Colonel 
Babcock  here  donated  to  the  club  $50.00  for  which  he  received  a 
vote  of  thanks.  Great  numbers  of  new  members  enrolled.  Ad- 
journed. 

The  club  met  on  October  13,  in  regular  session  the  president 
in  the  chair.  On  motion  of  Albert  Soper  it  was  voted  that  the 
club  hold  its  regular  meetings  every  Saturday  afternoon  at  two 
o'clock  until  after  the  sixth  of  November  next. 

The  following  resolution  was  offered  by  Henry  Sayrs:  Re- 
solved, that  a  committee  of  thirteen  be  appointed  (of  which  the 
president  shall  be  chairman) — to  draft  for  publication  an  address 


30  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

to  the  young  voters,  said  committee  to  report  at  the  next  meet- 
ing of  the  club;  adopted.  The  secretary  sent  each  member  a 
written  notice  requesting  his  presence  at  the  headquarters  at  the 
next  meeting.  A  vote  of  thanks  was  here  tendered  General 
Leake  for  his  very  able  address.  Twenty-nine  new  members  to- 
day. 

The  regular  meeting  of  the  club  was  held  October  20,  the 
president  in  the  chair.  Dr.  Smith  chairman  of  the  committee  of 
thirteen  appointed  at  the  previous  meeting  to  draft  an  address  to 
the  young  voters,  reported  that  said  committee  met  pursuant  to 
notice  and  do  most  respectfully  submit  to  this  club  for  adoption 
an  address  prepared  by  Mr.  Henry  Sayrs,  the  same  having  been 
approved  by  the  committee. 

Mr.  Sayrs  proceeded  with  the  reading  of  the  address,  which 
was  received  with  cheers,  and  unanimously  adopted  and  copies 
of  the  same  were  furnished  the  associated  press  and  city  dailies. 

It  was  moved  that  a  vote  of  thanks  be  tendered  Mr.  Henry 
Sayrs  for  the  able  address  just  read.  Carried. 

ADDRESS  TO  YOUNG  VOTERS. 


In  the  present  crisis  of  our  country  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club 
of  Chicago  feels  it  incumbent  upon  it  to  present  the  follow- 
ing considerations  to  young  voters:  Modern  Democracy  bears 
even  date  with  the  Presidency  of  Andrew  Jackson,  under  whose 
administration  the  annual  ordinary  expenses  of  the  government 
averaged  $18,221,686,  against  those  of  his  immediate  Republican 
predecessor,  John  Quincy  Adams,  of  $12,625,487.  Removals 
from  office  for  political  opinions  under  Washington  were  8; 
John  Adams,  9;  Jefferson,  39;  Madison,  2;  Monroe,  3;  J.  Q. 
Adams,  2.  Total  removals  by  the  the  first  six  Presidents,  74. 
During  the  first  recess  of  Congress,  Jackson  removed  176  high 
officials,  and  according  to  historian  Parton,  his  removals  num- 
bered not  less  than  2,000,  which  shows  the  perfect  consistency  of 
the  Democratic  party  then  and  now  on  the  question  of  civil  ser- 
vice reform.  This  administration  announced  and  enforced  the 


OLD  TIPPECANOE  CLUB,  CHICAGO.  3 1 

pernicious  un-American  doctrine  that  "To  the  victors  belong  the 
spoils, '  and  one  of  the  first  officials  removed  was  "Old  Tippe- 
canoe,"  General  William  Henry  Harrison,  Minister  to  Columbia. 

When  Jackson  became  President,  the  country,  under  the  be- 
nign influence  of  a  tariff  of  adequate  protection,  was  in  a  con- 
dition of  unexampled  prosperity,  and  seemed  to  so  continue  to 
almost  the  close  of  his  career.  The  arbitrary  and  revolutionary 
assumptions,  approved  and  encouraged  by  partisan  adherents, 
touching  great  monetary  and  financial  matters,  and  Congressional 
tampering  with  the  tariff,  ignoring  by  degrees  the  protective 
spirit,  did  not  fully  develop  their  disastrous  tendencies  until  after 
the  installation  of  his  successor. 

In  his  inaugural  address,  Martin  Van  Buren  boasted  that  he 
would  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  his  "illustrious  predecessor.  ' 
Very  soon  thereafter  the  country  found  itself  in  a  deplorable 
condition.  Consequent  upon  a  low  tariff,  importations  had  been 
excessive,  and  the  balance  of  trade  was  largely  against  us. 
Business  became  paralyzed,  labor  was  idle,  factories  were  closed, 
bread  riots  occurred,  credit  was  ruined,  all  banks  suspended, 
many  of  them  failed,  among  them  those  with  whom  the  govern- 
ment funds  had  been  illegally  placed.  Gold  was  at  a  premium  of 
twelve  per  cent.  Under  issuance  of  a  "  specie  circular  "  the  gov- 
ernment received  gold  and  silver  only,  leaving  for  the  uses  of  the 
the  people,  banks,  and  individuals,  shinplasters  of  every  con- 
ceivable kind  and  denomination.  Defalcations  by  government 
officials  were  of  stupendous  amounts  and  in  great  number. 

To  steal  was  to  "  Swartwout."  At  this  time  several  of  the 
Democratic  States  did  not  pay  interest  on  their  debts.  Mississ- 
ippi repudiated  her  debt  altogether,  and  bonds  of  the  State  of 
Illinois  sold  at  fifteen  cents  on  the  dollar.  This  pro-slavery  admin- 
istration, having  annually  cost  $30,432,475  for  ordinary  expenses, 
was  overthrown  by  the  glorious  election  of  gallant  Wm.  Henry 
Harrison  in  1840.  His  assuring  inaugural  address  and  singularly 
able  Cabinet  inspired  public  confidence;  an  early  session  of  Con- 
gress was  called  to  provide  ways  and  means  to  carry  on  the 
government.  The  president's  untimely  death  caused  universal 
mourning.  His  dying  words  to  his  successor  were:  "  Sir,  I  want  you 


32  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

to  understand  the  true  principals  of  the  government.  I  wish  them 
carried  out,  I  ask  nothing  more."  A  general  bankrupt  law  was 
passed  to  enable  the  people  to  commence  anew,  and  prosperity 
shone  upon  business,  revived  under  the  protective  tariff  of  1842. 
The  peculiar  election  of  Polk,  a  man  unknown  to  fame, 
claimed  as  for  free  trade  at  the  South,  and  as  good  a  protection- 
ist as  Clay  at  the  North,  took  the  country  by  surprise,  and  when 
it  was  discovered  that  he  and  his  Secretary  of  the  Treasury, 
Robert  J.  Walker,  were  consumate  free  traders  of  the  Cobden 
school,  manufacturing  interests  became  dazed,  and  when  the 
partisan  Vice-President,  Dallas,  of  Pennsylvania,  by  his  casting 
vote,  insured  the  passage  of  the  free  trade  or  revenue  tariff  bill 
of  1846,  confusion  and  indignation  prevailed.  While  this  adminis- 
tration cowered  in  the  face  of  war  with  England,  it  did,  with  an 
eye  single  to  the  extension  of  slavery,  go  to  war  with  Mexico 
under  a  resolution  of  the  House  of  Representatives  that  "war 
existed  by  the  act  of  Mexico."  Henry  Clay  said  his  tongue 
would  have  cleaved  to  the  roof  of  his  mouth  before  he  would 
have  voted  that  lie.  Such  an  administration  naturally  collapsed 
amid  the  plaudits  of  the  people,  and  brave  General  Taylor  be- 
came President.  His  reign  was  brief,  however,  for  death  for  the 
second  time  in  the  history  of  the  Republic,  invaded  the  Presi- 
dential chair.  His  persistent  determination  secured  the  entrance 
of  California  into  the  Union  as  a  free  State.  The  administrations 
of  Pierce  and  Buchanan  were  eminently  Democratic,  under 
absolute  control  of  the  slave  power,  leading  directly  and  unmis- 
takably to  the  greatest  civil  war  known  in  the  history  of  man- 
kind. 

The  ratio  of  losses  per  $1,000  to  the  government  on  receipts 
and  disbursements  under  Jackson  were  $7.52;  Van  Buren,  11.71. 
Under  Republican  Presidents :  Lincoln,  76  cents;  Johnson,  57 
cents;  Grant,  24  cents;  Hayes,  8-10  of  a  mill.  Those  under 
Cleveland  will  not  be  manifest  until  after  March  4,  1889. 

The  Democratic  party  is  opposed  to  internal  improvements 
by  the  general  government;  is  in  favor  of  free  trade  and  opposed 
to  the  principles  of  protection.  Vainly  pretending  not  to  know 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  33 

the  difference  between  taxes  and  duties,  it  discriminates  in  favor 
of  the  former. 

It  opposes  registry  laws  for  the  purification  of  the  ballot.  It 
would  exalt  the  State  above  the  nation.  It  causes  our  country 
to  be  represented  at  foreign  courts  by  ex-rebels  and  worse- 
copperheads.  It  menaces  the  continuous  loyalty  of  the  Supreme 
Court.  It  embraces  the  worst  elements  of  society,  and  is  an 
omnipresent  affinity  of  the  liquor  traffic.  Its  living  principle  is 
spoils,  and  it  is  "  held  together  by  the  cohesive  power  of  public 
plunder."  Sympathizing  with  the  rebellion,  it  is  responsible  for 
the  creation  of  the  public  debt,  and  not  anxious  for  its  payment. 
Upon  sixty  millions  of  dollars  loaned  without  interest  to  friends 
and  coadjutors  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  many  more  millions 
lying  idle  in  the  treasury,  the  government  is  in  effect  paying 
interest  in  not  using  said  money  in  payment  of  its  interest-bear- 
ing bonds.  Friends  of  a  merchant  who  managed  his  finances  thus 
would  be  justified  in  applying  to  the  court  for  the  appointment 
of  a  conservator  of  his  estate.  This  money  should  circulate  in 
all  business  channels  of  the  Nation.  Naturally  the  Democratic 
party  is  careless  and  indifferent  as  to  the  welfare  of  the  disabled 
Union  soldiers  and  sailors  and  their  families.  It  is  master  of  all 
the  recent  slave  states,  and  the  abject  slave  of  every  state  that 
rebelled  against  the  Union.  President  Cleveland,  who  has  vetoed 
more  bills  than  all  his  predecessors,  holds  his  high  office  and  the 
Democrats  their  majority  in  the  House  of  Representatives  chiefly 
by  reason  of  frauds  in  the  election  in  those  states,  and  by  the 
overwhelming  vote  of  the  slums  in  the  city  of  New  York! 

Conspicuous  among  pleasant  memories  of  duty  performed 
during  almost  half  a  century,  is  having  in  our  early  life  voted  for 
General  William  Henry  Harrison  for  President,  and  for  the 
reasons  herein  set  forth,  and  many  others  unnecessary  to  enum- 
erate, we  are  fully  convinced  that  continuous  opposition  to  the 
Democratic  party  and  its  policy  has  proven  true  service  to  the 
country,  so  that  when  the  life  of  the  principle  of  protection  of 
American  labor  is  at  stake  we  feel  that  we  may  with  perfect  pro- 
priety, appeal  to  the  reason  and  patriotism  of  every  young  voter 
and  invite  them  to  unite  with  us  in  the  endeavor  to  elect  General 


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MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 


Committee. 


J 


Benjamin  Harrison,  in  whose  valor,  wisdom,  honesty  and  patriot- 
ism we  entertain  the  same  confidence  that  we  had  in  his  illustrious 
grandsire,  President  of  the  United  States. 

HENRY  SAYRS, 

D.  B.  FISK, 

DR.  DAVID  S.  SMITH, 

President  of  the  Club. 

JUDGE  VAN  H.  HIGGINS, 

WILLIAM  RIPLEY, 

JUDGE  C.  M.  HAWLEY, 

ALBERT  SOPER, 

T.  B.  CARTER, 

SAMUEL  C.  GRIGGS, 

NATHAN  MEARS, 

COLONEL  R.  M.  HOUGH, 

C.  R.  VANDERCOOK, 

ENOS  SLOSSON, 

Here  the  president  created  a  surprise  in  introducing  to  the 
club  the  Hon.  James  G.  Blaine.  The  way  in  which  the  latter  was 
received  would  give  a  lesson  in  enthusiam  to  any  meeting.  Mr. 
Blaine  said  he  was  not  a  voter  in  1840,  but  remembered  seeing 
the  senior  Harrison  while  on  his  way  to  Washington  in  1841. 
The  scenes  of  that  day  were  still  vivid  in  his  memory,  and  he 
hoped  to  see  before  long  another  General  Harrison  on  his  way  to 
the  White  House.  He  was  very  glad,  indeed,  to  meet  so  many 
veterans. 

Speeches  were  made  by  Dr.  Brooks  and  Mr.  Fontleroy. 
It  having  been  announced  that  seats  on  the  platform  in  Cav- 
alry Armory  had  been  provided  for  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  to 
listen  to  Mr.  Elaine's  speech  in  the  evening,  the  president  re- 
quested all  the  members  to  meet  at  the  Burdick  House  at  7 
o'clock.  Twenty-nine  members  were  added  to  the  club. 

OCTOBER  27. — The  regular  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  the 
president.  C.  R.  Vandercook  offered  the  following: 

Resolved,  That  the  club,  as  a  body,  have  a  street  parade  on  the 
3 1st  inst.,  and  that  for  that  purpose  all  members  be  requested  to 
then  meet  at  the  headquarters. 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,   CHICAGO.  35 

The  president  stated  that  the  club  had  just  had  an  invitation 
from  the  Commercial  Club  and  the  Board  of  Trade  Republican 
Club  to  join  them  in  their  parade  next  Saturday.  It  was  decided 
to  march  as  planned,  and  also  accept  the  kind  invitations.  On 
motion  of  Mr.  Burroughs,  Col.  R.  M.  Hough  was  chosen  marshall 
of  the  day.  Addresses  were  delivered  by  Stephen  A.  Douglas,  Jr , 
Captain  McHenry  and  others.  On  motion  of  Mr.  Ripley,  Mr. 
Douglas  was  elected  an  honorary  member  by  a  rising  vote,  and 
the  president  presented  him  with  the  club's  badge,  whereupon  Mr. 
Douglass  proposed  three  cheers  for  Harrison  and  Morton,  which 
were  given  with  a  will.  New  members,  39.  Adjourned. 

The  regular  meeting  was  held  November  3.  The  president 
stated  that  the  veterans  had  assembled  to  take  part  in  the  great 
parade  of  the  day.  The  marshall  stated  what  he  would  expect 
of  the  boys.  That  the  lines  would  form  on  La  Salle  and  Quincy 
Streets.  It  was  then  voted  that  the  regular  business  be  suspended 
and  that  club  adjourn  for  one  week. 

November  10,  meeting  called  to  order  by  the  president  after 
first  congratulating  the  club  in  his  'pleasant  and  appropriate 
manner  on  the  successful  termination  of  the  campaign.  The 
finance  committee  asked  and  received  further  time  in  which  to 
make  its  report.  Philip  Burroughs  submitted  the  following: 
Resolved,  that  the  Old  Tippecanoe  club  of  Chicago  hereby  ex- 
tends its  warmest  thanks  to  the  Commercial  club  and  also  to  the 
Board  of  Trade  Republican  club  for  their  invitation  to  join  them 
in  the  march  as  well  as  for  the  honor  shown  by  placing  us  at  the 
head  of  the  column.  Resolved,  that  we  also  tender  hearty  thanks 
to  General  Joseph  B.  Stockton  and  the  chairman  of  the  central 
committee  for  their  many  courtesies  and  generosities  shown  the 
old  boys  of  1840.  Adopted. 

Mr.  Albert  Soper  presented  the  following:  Resolved,  that  a 
committee  of  three  be  appointed  whose  duties  will  be  to  revise 
the  minutes  of  the  meetings  and  reports  of  officers  of  the  club, 
and  prepare  an  introductory  preface,  to  be  placed  in  fore-part  of 
the  register;  committee  to  be  appointed  by  the  chair.  Carried. 
The  chair  appointed  H.  M.  Garlick,  Albert  Soper  and  Henry 
Sayrs. 


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Resolved,  That  the  members  of  this  club  do  most  heartily  ex- 
tend their  sincere  thanks  to  John  B.  Drake  and  Samuel  Parker,  of 
the  Grand  Pacific  Hotel,  for  the  use  of  this  parlor  during  this 
great  political  campaign.  Long  may  they  live,  prosperous  and 
happy,  are  the  wishes  of  the  veterans  of  1840.  Adopted. 

The  following  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago,  in 
meeting  assembled,  do  hereby  extend  to  Dr.  David  S.  Smith, 
President;  Enos  Slosson,  ist  Vice-President;  R.  J.  Bennett,  2d 
Vice-President;  Henry  M.  Garlick,  ist  Assistant  Secretary; 
C.  R.  Van  Dercook,  Sergeant-at-Arms; Col.  R.  M.  Hough,  Marshall, 
and  the  Finance  Committee  our  warmest  thanks  for  the  very 
able  manner  in  which  they  have  discharged  their  respective 
duties,  and  in  their  devotion  to  the  interests  of  this  organization, 
all  tending  to  the  great  victory  on  November  6. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Enos  Slosson,  a  committee  of  three,  com- 
posed of  Thos.  B.  Bryan,  Enos  Slosson  and  Nathan  Mears 
(appointed  by  the  chair),  was  designated  to  draft  suitable  reso- 
lutions to  be  forwarded  to  General  Harrison,  Levi  P.  Morton  and 
the  Gov-elect  of  Illinois.  Said  committee  retired,  and  prepared 
and  submitted  the  following,  which  was  adopted  by  a  rising  vote: 

Resolved,  That  we,  members  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of 
Chicago,  some  four  hundred  in  number,  many  having  cast  our 
first  vote  forWm.  Henry  Harrison,  and  because  of  our  extreme 
age  probably  our  last  vote  for  his  illustrious  grandson,  the  presi- 
dent-elect, now  unite  our  voices  in  heartiest  congratulation  to  the 
President,  Vice-President-elect,  and  the  Governor-elect  of  Illi- 
nois, and  commend  them  and  our  beloved  country  to  the  blessing 
of  Almighty  God. 

Mr.  Thomas  B.  Bryan  moved  that  each  member  of  the  club 
be  allowed  to  put  his  own  autograph  on  the  roster. 

Although  a  civilian,  Mr.  Bryan  was  unanimously  elected  a 
member  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  of  which  the  late  General  Sheridan 
was  commander-in-chief,  in  recognition  of  Mr.  Bryan's  faithful 
services  in  maintaining  the  honor,  integrity  and  supremacy  of 
the  government  of  the  United  States.  His  identification  with  the 
Harrisons  has  been  intimate,  dating  back  to  his  residence  in  Cin- 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  37 

cinnati,  when,  as  legal  adviser  of  Mr.  Scott  Harrison,  he  assisted 
in  the  settlement  of  President  Wm.  Henry  Harrison's  ^estate. 
The  convention  which  nominated  General  Harrison  in  1840  was 
presided  over  by  Gov.  James  Barbour,  of  Virginia,  an  uncle  of 
Mr.  Bryan. 

Mr.  Phillip  Burroughs  presented  the  following  on  permanent 
organization,  which  was  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago  shall  con- 
tinue its  present  organization  so  long  as  five  members  attend  the 
meetings,  and  for  that  purpose  they  adopt  the  following  rules: 

ART.  I. — The  club  shall  meet  the  first  Saturday  after  the  first 
Tuesday  of  November  of  each  year,  and  as  much  oftener  as  may 
be  necessary  for  business. 

ART.  II. — The  membership  of  this  club  shall  be  limited  to 
those  who  assisted  or  voted  in  1840  for  the  distinguished  General 
Wm.  Henry  Harrison,  and  includes  their  wives,  their  sons,  sons- 
in-law,  their  daughters  and  daughters-in-law. 

ART.  III. — The  present  officers  shall  hold  their  terms  for  one 
year,  or  until  others  are  chosen  in  their  places. 

ART.  IV. — The  annual  election  for  officers  shall  be  held  the 
first  Saturday  after  the  first  Tuesday  in  November,  in  1889,  and 
yearly  thereafter. 

ART.  V. — Five  members  of  the  club  may  call  a  meeting,  and 
the  highest  officer  present  shall  preside  at  all  meetings.  If  no 
officers  are  present,  then  the  oldest  member  shall  preside. 

Mr.  I.  A.  Fleming,  representing  the  Chicago  Printing  Co., 
stated  that  as  it  had  been  suggested  that  the  club  have  cata- 
logues, to  contain  names  of  members,  their  residence,  and  a  brief 
biography  of  the  club,  he,  on  behalf  of  his  company,  would  fur- 
nish the  club  with  1,000  printed  copies  free  of  charge.  The  prop- 
osition was  accepted  with  thanks  and  cheers.  The  following  gen- 
tlemen addressed  the  club,  eliciting  round  after  round  of  applause, 
viz:  Hon.  Thomas  B.  Bryan,  Gen.  J.  B.  Leake  and  J.  B.  Patter- 
son. Gen.  Leake  dwelt  mainly  on  the  question  of  fraudulent 
elections  in  Southern  States,  handling  the  same  in  a  masterly  man- 
ner. In  answer  to  a  dispatch  by  Mr.  P.  M.  Blodgett,  the  follow- 
ing telegram  was  received. 


38  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

INDIANAPOLIS,  Nov.  10,  1888. 
P.  M.  Blodgett,  Tippecanoe  Club,  Grand  Pacific  Hotel,  Chicago : 

Please  convey  to  the  members  of  the  club  my  high  apprecia- 
tion of  their  efforts  and  cordial  support  during  the  campaign. 
The  evidence  given  me  of  their  respect  and  confidence  has  been 
very  gratifying  to  me.  BENJAMIN  HARRISON. 

On  November  24,  the  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  the  First 
Vice -President.  Minutes  of  last  meeting  read  and  approved. 
The  following  preamble  and  resolution  was  presented  by  Henry 
Sayrs: 

WHEREAS,  It  is  desirable  and  important  that  the  volume  now 
being  prepared  for  the  purpose  of  being  placed  with  the  Histor- 
ical Society,  to  contain  an  account  of  all  the  proceedings  in  1888 
of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago,  shall  embrace  the  auto- 
graph of  every  member  of  the  club. 

Resolved,  That  Secretary  Garlick  be,  and  hereby  is,  authorized 
to  procure  printed  postal  cards  and  thereby  notify  and  request 
all  members  who  shall  on  December  I5th  next  not  have  signed, 
to  call  at  his  office,  No.  39,  116  Dearborn  Street,  and  affix  their 
signature  to  the  record,  the  expense  of  said  postals  to  be  paid  for 
by  the  treasurer.  Adopted. 

Mr.  P.  Burroughs  offered  the  following: 

Resolved,  That  a  tender  to  H.  M.  Garlick  be  rendered  in  tes- 
timony of  his  valuable  services  in  the  interest  of  the  club,  and 
that  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  collect  funds  for  said 
purpose  and  present  same.  Referred  to  Finance  Committee  with 
power  to  act. 

On  motion  of  W.  B.  Mills  it  was 

Resolved,  That  the  regular  meetings  be  held  on  the  last  Sat- 
urday of  each  month,  at  2  o'clock,  p.  m.,  on  and  after  November 
24,  1888. 

At  the  meeting  December  2Qth,  the  Finance  Committee  re- 
ported financially,  also  that  Secretary-Treasurer  Ackley  had 
resigned,  whereupon  Mr.  A.  H.  Morrison  offered  the  following: 

WHEREAS,  Our  Secretary  and  Treasurer  has  resigned,  there- 
fore be  it 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  39 

Resolved,  That  this  club  now  proceed  to  an  election  of  their 
successors. 

Whereupon  H.  M.  Garlick  was  unanimously  elected  Secretary 
and  Albert  Soper  unanimously  elected  Treasurer.  Mr.  Soper 
offered  the  following  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  whose  duties 
shall  be  to  draft  a  preface  or  historical  account  of  the  times,  and 
biographic  history  of  Chicago's  Old  Tippecanoes  from  1836,  1840, 
to  1888,  the  same  to  be  placed  in  fore  part  of  the  register  belong- 
ing to  the  club,  Carried.  Judge  C.  M.  Hawley,  Henry  Sayrs, 
Albert  Soper,  W.  H.  Bradley,  and  Wm.  S.  Elliott  were  appointed 
said  committee. 

The  following  letter  from  Gov.-elect  Fifer  was  received  and 
ordered  spread  upon  the  minutes: 

BLOOMINGTON,  ILL.,  Dec.  i,  1888. 
H.  M.  Garlick,  Secretary: 

MY  DEAR  FRIEND.  Your  recent  letter  conveying  to  me  the 
action  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago  is  before  me.  It 
is  indeed  touching  to  be  so  kindly  remembered  by  gentlemen 
who  bear  the  years  and  honor  that  the  members  of  your  club 
carry.  I  appreciate  highly  the  compliment  you  extended  and 
ask  you  to  carry  to  the  members  of  your  club,  for  me,  my  thanks 
for  their  kind  remembrance  and  my  sincere  wishes  for  their 
personal  prosperity.  Yours  most  truly, 

J.  W.  FIFER. 

Mr.  Bennett  offered  the  following  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  the  chair  appoint  a  committee  of  five  to  be 
known  as  a  committee  of  political  action  and  that  all  measures, 
motions,  resolutions,  etc.,  contemplating  the  political  course  or 
endorsement  of  this  club,  shall  be  reported  to  said  committee. 
Carried. 

The  chair  appointed  R.  J.  Bennett,  Albert  Soper,  Thomas  F. 
Mitchell  and  William  H.  Bradley,  said  committee ;  when  on 
motion  Enos  Slosson  was  added  thereto. 

On  motion  of  Thomas  F.  Mitchell,  the  by-laws  were  so  amen- 
ded as  to  read:  The  regular  meetings  of  this  club  shall  be  on  the 
second  and  fourth  Saturdays  of  each  month  until  further  orders 


40  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

Mrs.  Minerva  K.  Elliott  favored  the  club  with  an  able  address 
for  which  she  received  a  vote  of  thanks.  She  was  then  voted  an 
honorary  member  of  the  club,  presented  with  a  badge  of  the  club 
and  $10. 

Mrs.  Mary  M.  Hopkins,  president  of  the  Sycamore  Tippe- 
canoe  Club  delivered  a  brief  address,  was  made  an  honorary 
member  and  presented  with  a  badge. 

At  the  meeting  January  12,  1889,  the  First  Vice-President 
presided.  Henry  Sayrs  offered  the  following: 

Resolved,  That  it  is  not  the  province  or  policy  of  this  club  to 
advocate  or  promote  the  nomination  or  appointment  of  anyone 
to  office. 

Mr.  Prince  moved  that  the  resolution  be  referred  to  committee 
on  political  action.  After  considerable  discussion  Mr.  Sayrs 
withdrew  the  resolution  rather  than  have  it  referred  to  said  com- 
mittee and  then  moved  that  the  resolution  passed  at  the  last 
meeting,  appointing  a  committee  on  political  action  be  re-con- 
sidered, which  motion  was  laid  over  until  the  next  meeting. 

Mr.  Holmes  moved  that  speeches  on  resolutions  be  confined 
to  five  minutes.  Carried. 

L.  W.  Garlick  reported  the  death  of  one  of  the  members. 

Mr.  J.  H.  Bellfield  and  Mr.  Mills  announced  the  serious  illness 
of  Luther  Lafflin  Mills. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Garlick  a  visiting  committee  of  eight  mem- 
bers was  appointed  to  look  after  sick  and  disabled  members,  viz: 
For  Hyde  Park,  L.  W.  Garlick  and  Judge  C.  M.  Hawley.  For 
the  north  division,  Colonel  R.  J.  Bennett,  and  for  the  west  division, 
Messrs  Blodgett  and  Burrows ;  for  the  south  division,  Henry 
Sayrs  and  Colonel  R.  M.  Hough. 

On  motion  of  A.  H.  Morrison  it  was: 

Resolved,  That  the  secretary  be,  and  hereby  is,  requested  to 
cause  to  be  printed  the  names  of  every  member  of  the  club,  with 
his  residence,  the  same  to  be  distributed  to  the  members  at  our 
next  meeting.  Carried. 

Colonel  Clement  offered  the  following: 

Resolved,  That  the  club  take  immediate  action  to  enlarge  its 
membership  by  adding  all  names  eligible  to  become  members,  so 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  41 

that  we  can  take  strong  action  in  the  coming  spring  election. 
Carried. 

On  January  26,  president  Smith  called  the  meeting  to  order 
and  stated  his  pleasure  at 'being  once  again  permitted  to  be  at 
his  post. 

Mr.  Burroughs,  chairman  committee  on  necrology,  reported  the 
death  of  Luther  L.  Mills.  It  was  therefore: 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  draft 
suitable  letter  of  condolence  to  the  family  of  diseased  and  that 
a  copy  of  said  letter  be  spread  upon  the  minutes,  and  that  similar 
action  be  taken  with  reference  to  other  members  of  the  club  who 
have  died.  Reported  to  committee  on  necrology. 

Judge  Hawley  then  submitted  the  following: 

WHEREAS,  The  secretary  of  the  Tippecanoe  Veterans  of  1840, 
has  received  from  Mr.  Calel  A.  Wall,  president  of  the  Tippecanoe 
Club  of  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  a  large  photograph  of  the 
members  in  group — of  66 — and  other  historical  reminiscences, 
therefore  be  it: 

Resolved,  That  this  club  extend  to  Mr.  Wall  their  hearty 
thanks  and  the  secretary  be  requested  to  forward  a  copy  of  this 
resolution  to  him.  Carried. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Bennett,  Mr.  Wall's  letter  was  placed  on  file. 

Mr.  W.  B.  Mills  moved  that  a  vote  of  thanks  be  extended  to 
the  Commercial  and  Traveling  Mens'  Clubs  in  behalf  of  the  old 
veterans,  who  wished  to  avail  themselves  of  the  low  rate  of  fare 
etc.,  to  visit  Washington  on  the  occasion  of  General  Harrison's 
inauguration.  Adopted. 

Judge  C.  M.  Hawley,  chairman  committee  on  preparing  pre- 
face to  the  book  about  to  be  published,  submitted  the  preface  to 
the  consideration  of  the  club.  It  was  approved.  Given  to  the 
press  and  the  author  thanked. 

A  motion  by  Mr.  Albert  Soper,  to  take  the  sense  of  the  club 
regarding  the  publication  of  the  proposed  book,  its  size,  cost,  etc., 
caused  some  discussion  and  was  referred  to  the  revising  com- 
mittee with  power  to  act.  So  ordered. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  H.  M.  Garlick  a  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered 
I.  A.  Fleming  for  500  printed  catalogues  of  membership. 


42  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

Judge  Bradley  addressed  the  meeting,  when  after  a  song  by 
Mr.  Mills  it  adjourned. 

The  meeting  of  February  9,  was  opened  with  prayer  by  Rev. 
W.  Holmes.  Committee  on  necrology  announced  the  death  of 
C.  W.  Munger  and  W.  F.  Myrick;  members  of  the  club  attending 
funeral  of  brother  members  were  requested  to  wear  the  club 
badges. 

Henry  Sayrs  called  up  a  resolution  which  was  laid  on  the  table 
four  weeks  ago,  to  reconsider  the  following  resolution,  adopted 
December  29,  viz: 

Resolved,  That  the  chair  appoint  a  committee  of  five  to  be 
known  as  a  committee  of  political  action  and  that  ALL  measures, 
motions,  resolutions,  etc.,  contemplating  the  political  course  or 
endorsement  of  this  club,  SHALL  be  referred  to  said  committee. 
After  considerable  discussion  the  motion  was  indefinitely  post- 
poned, whereupon  Colonel  Morrison  moved,  that  said  resolution 
of  December  29  be  so  altered  by  striking  out  the  word  SHALL  and 
inserting  the  word  MAY  in  lieu  thereof,  as  to  make  it  read:  That 
all  measures,  motions,  resolutions,  etc.,  MAY  be  referred  to  said 
committee.  Carried. 

Resolved,  That  a  standing  committee  of  three  be  appointed,  of 
which  the  president  shall  be  chairman,  whose  duty  shall  be  to 
secure  speakers  to  address  the  club  and  report  same  to  the  sec- 
retary, giving  names,  subject  and  date,  that  same  may  be  published 
with  notice  of  meeting,  said  notices  only  authorized  when  signed 
by  the  president,  or  if  president  is  absent,  the  vice-president  or 
secretary.  Carried. 

Mr.  G.  S.  Knapp  came  forward  and  said  he  had  made  for  the 
president,  Dr.  David  S.  Smith,  and  now  took  pleasure  in  present- 
ing it— a  gavel.  The  mallet  head  was  of  hickory  from  Missionary 
Ridge.  In  the  head  was  a  piece  of  black  walnut  from  the  table 
used  in  the  convention  at  which  president-elect  Benjamin  Harri- 
son was  nominated,  a  hickory  shoot  from  Shiloh  for  the  handle; 
plugged  in  the  end  of  the  handle  was  a  piece  of  the  celebrated 
black  walnut  rail  which  Abraham  Lincoln  split.  Affidavits  from 
Charles  A.  Stone  attested  the  genuineness  of  the  hickory.  The 
splinter  from  Lincoln's  rail  came  direct  from  the  Chicago  His- 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  43 

torical  Society,  to  which  it  was  presented  by  the  venerable  Dennis 
F.  Hanks. 

The  president  expressed  his  gratitude  and  high  appreciation 
of  the  souvenir  and  said  the  gavel  would  not  only  call  the  Old 
Tippecanoes  to  order  but  arouse  their  most  patriotic  memories. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Slosson  a  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  Mr. 
Knapp  for  his  gavel. 

Mrs.  Thomas  Collins  read  an  excellent  poem  of  which  she  was 
authoress  in  honor  of  the  Old  Tippecanoes,  for  which  on  motion 
of  Mr.  Mills  she  received  a  vote  of  thanks.  It  was 

Resolved,  That  the  secretary  be  authorized  to  have  postal  cards 
printed  and  mailed  to  the  members,  asking  them  to  designate  the 
number  of  books  they  would  take  at  a  cost  of  5<Dc.  each,  and  to 
report  same  to  him.  Also,  to  have  such  as  have  not  done  so,  to 
hand  in  their  biographical  history.  Adopted. 

Judge  Hawley  and  Colonel  Clement  addressed  the  meeting 
and  after  a  song,  "The  Sword  of  Bunker  Hill,"  by  A.  H.Williams, 
adjourned. 

At  the  meeting  February  23,  the  committee  on  necrology 
reported  the  deaths  of  William  Brace,  aged  75  years,  and  J.  G. 
Doddridge,  aged  83  years.  The  revising  committee  reported 
progress.  Mrs.  B.  Remington  and  Miss  Fleming  favored  the  club 
with  recitations,  for  which  they  were  thanked.  The  political 
situation  was  discussed  by  Colonel  Morrison,  George  P.  Harris, 
W.  S.  Elliott,  Colonel  Clement,  Colonel  R.  M.  Hough,  R.  J.  Bennett 
and  J.  R.  Magee.  The  course  of  Mayor  John  A.  Roche  was 
approved.  Adjourned. 

The  regular  meeting  was  held  March  9,  the  first  Vice-Presi- 
dent, Enos  Slosson,  in  the  chair.  Rev.  Geo.  S.  Moore  opened 
the  meeting  with  prayer.  Minutes  of  last  meeting  read  and  ap- 
proved. Committee  on  necrology  reported  through  L.  W.  Gar- 
lick  the  death  of  Bro.  Wm.  Patterson. 

W.  H.  Bradley  moved  that  all  manuscript  or  other  matter 
intended  for  publication  in  proposed  biographical  history  of  the 
club,  be  referred  to  Mr.  I.  A.  Fleming  to  prepare,  and  when  so 
done  to  submit  such  revision  to  the  committee  for  their  approval. 
Carried. 


44  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

On  motion  of  W.  B.  Mills  the  secretary  was  instructed  to  in- 
vite Hon.  David  G.  Lyon  and  G.  J.  Patterson  to  address  the  club 
at  its  next  meeting. 

The  secretary  stated  that  he  would  be  pleased  to  give  one  of 
his  pictures  from  a  pen-sketch  made  by  himself  from  an  old  oil 
paintingin  the  possesssion  of  Gen.  Benj.  Harrison  of  his  birthplace, 
being  the  old  homestead  of  Old  Tippecanoe  in  North  Bend, 
Ohio,  providing  the  club  would  have  the  same  framed  and  pre- 
sented to  John  B.  Drake,  Esq.,  whereupon  R.  J.  Bennett  moved 
that  the  secretary  be  and  is  hereby  instructed  to  have  said  picture 
properly  framed  and  ready  at  our  next  meeting,  and  that  an 
order  be  drawn  on  the  treasury  to  pay  for  same.  Carried  unani- 
mously. Addresses  were  made  by  J.  K.  Magee  and  Judges 
Hawley  and  Bradley. 

At  the  regular  meeting  on  March  23,  the  committee  on  necrol- 
ogy, through  Mr.  Burroughs,  reported  the  death  of  Bro.  Grant 
Goodrich.  Addresses  were  made  by  Mayor  John  A.  Roche,  S. 
A.  Douglas  and  Mrs.  M.  K.  Elliott.  On  motion  of  the  secretary, 
John  A.  Roche  was  made  an  honorary  member  of  the  club,  and 
the  Vice-President  presented  his  honor  with  a  badge  of  the  club. 

Representing  the  club,  Henry  Sayrs  presented  to  John  B. 
Drake,  the  proprietor  of  the  Grand  Pacific  Hotel,  a  lithograph  of 
Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison's  birthplace  at  North  Bend,  Ohio,  a  pen- 
sketch  by  the  secretary,  H.  M.  Garlick,  from  an  oil  painting  made 
in  1840.  Mr.  Drake  expressed  his  gratitude  and  surprise  in  his 
ever-genial  manner,  declaring  himself  a  Republican  all  over  and 
in  full  sympathy  with  the  cause,  whereupon  three  welcome 
cheers  were  given  him.  After  an  address  by  Judge  Hawley,  he 
moved,  that  when  the  meeting  adjourned  it  should  be  for  one 
week.  Carried. 

Here  it  was  suggested  that  an  entertainment  be  given  under 
the  auspices  of  the  club  at  Central  Music  Hall  at  an  early 
date,  the  proceeds  of  which,  after  all  expenses  were  paid, 
to  be  turned  into  the  treasury  of  the  club  to  be  used  in  the  inter- 
est of  preparing  for  publication  and  the  publishing  of  the  book 
of  biographical  sketches  of  the  members,  and  other  matter  of 
interest  pertaining  to  the  club's  history;  therefore  be  it 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  45 

Resolved,  that  said  entertainment  be  had  and  that  a  committee 
of  fifteen  or  more  be  appointed  to  perfect  the  necessary  arrange- 
ment. Carried. 

The  following  committee  was  appointed:  R.  J.  Bennett, 
P.  Burroughs,  A.  H.  Williams,  A.  H.  Morrison,  C.  M.  Hawley, 
H.  M.  Garlick,  G.  S.  Knapp,  C.  R.  Vandercook,  W.  S.  Elliott,  I. 
A.  Fleming,  L.  W.  Garlick,  Mrs.  M.  K.  Elliott,  Mrs.  S.  C.  Hair, 
Mrs.  L.  W.  Garlick,  Mrs.  G.  S.  Knapp,  Miss  Kate  Burroughs  and 
Miss  Dewey. 

The  adjourned  meeting  of  the  club  was  held  March  30.  Com- 
mittee on  necrology  reported  the  death  of  J.  H.  Gill  at  Topeka, 
Kan.  on  March  13,  whereupon  R.  J.  Bennett  moved,  that  the 
committee  on  necrology  draft  and  report  suitable  resolutions 
commemorative  to  the  departed  brother.  Carried. 

Henry  Sayrs  offered  the  following: 

Resolved,  that  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago,  heartily 
congratulates  the  President  of  the  United  States  on  the  appoint- 
ment of  Robert  T.  Lincoln,  Envoy  Extraordinary  and  Minister 
Plenipotentiary  of  the  United  States  to  Great  Britain. 

Resolved,  that  the  secretary  be,  and  hereby  is,  requested  to 
transmit  a  copy  of  the  foregoing  resolution  to  Benjamin  Harri- 
son, President  of  the  United  States.  Carried. 

After  some  discussion  on  way  and -manner  of  the  club,  proper 
action  on  application  of  its  members  for  endorsement  for  politi- 
cal positions,  the  following  resolution  was  offered  by  Henry 
Sayrs: 

Resolved,  that  for  the  benefit  of  persons,  NOW  MEMBERS  of  this 
club,  who  may  be  applicants  for  official  positions  of  the  Federal 
government  or  the  City  of  Chicago,  the  president,  first  and 
second  vice-presidents,  treasurer  and  secretary,  or  a  majority  of 
them  concurring  each  in  his  official  capacity,  may  upon  request, 
in  their  discretion  and  in  behalf  of  this  club,  duly  certify  as  to 
the  honesty,  ability  and  patriotism  of  such  applicants.  Carried. 

Mr.  A.  H.  Williams  moved,  that  a  vote  of  thanks  be  tendered 
the  Marquette  Club  for  favors  shown  this  club  during  the  trip  to 
to  Washington  and  also  to  G.  S.  Knapp,  who  represented  the 


46  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

club  on  the  excursion  to  the  inauguration  of  Benjamin  Harrison. 
Adopted. 

R.  J.  Bennett,  chairman,  reported  that  the  committee  had 
about  completed  arrangements  for  the  entertainment  and  had 
selected  their  sub-committee — the  committee  on  program  being 
I.  A.  Fleming,  H.  M.  Garlick  and  G.  S.  Knapp.  H  M.  Garlick 
being  made  treasurer  of  committee.  Accepted. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Bennett,  Phillip  Burroughs  was  appointed 
to  act  as  Marshall  and  John  King,  Jr.,  as  aid  for  the  veterans  on 
the  march  to  the  hall  of  entertainment. 

Mr.  L.  W.  Garlick  moved,  that  the  members  of  the  club  meet 
at  the  Grand  Pacific  Hotel  on  the  evening  of  April  4,  and  pro- 
ceed in  a  body  to  Central  Music  Hall  to  the  music  of  fife  and 
drum,  each  member  wearing  the  club  badge.  Carried. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Pierce  adjourned  for  one  week. 

The  meeting  of  April  6  was  called  to  order  by  the  First  Vice- 
President.  Prayer  was  offered  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Severance. 

Mr.  R.  J.  Bennett,  chairman  of  committee  on  arrangement  for 
the  entertainment  had  at  Central  Music  Hall,  reported  that  the 
committee  had  not  finished  so  as  to  enable  them  to  make  a 
definate  report;  they  had  done  good  and  successful  work,  how- 
ever, and  asked  for  more  time  to  report.  Further  time  was 
granted  and  the  committee  thanked  by  the  club  for  the  able 
manner  they  had  thus  far  discharged  their  duties. 

It  was  then  determined  that  all  unsettled  business  connected 
with  the  late  entertainment  be  left  for  settlement  in  the  hands  of 
the  original  committee. 

Mr.  Bennett  stated  that  in  consequence  of  continued  absence 
of  the  president  and  treasurer,  two  other  members  should  be 
appointed  in  their  stead  in  signing  petitions  for  applicants  of  the 
club  for  official  positions,  whereupon  Judge  C.  M.  Hawley 
and  Phillip  Burroughs  were  chosen  to  temporarily  fill  those 
vacancies. 

Mr.  I.  A.  Fleming  moved  a  vote  of  thanks  be  tendered  the 
Hon.  Thos.  B.  Bryan,  Rev.  Dr.  Withrow  and  Eugene  J.  Hall,  for 
their  valued  services  at  the  entertainment  given  by  veterans  of 
1836,  1840-1888  on  April  4  in  Central  Music  Hall,  and  that  the 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  47 

secretary  be  requested  to  transmit  same  to  each.  Carried  unani- 
mously. 

Mr.  L.  W.  Garlick  moved  a  vote  of  thanks  to  all  others  who 
assisted  the  committee  or  rendered  service  towards  the  advance- 
ment of  the  entertainment.  Carried. 

Col.  Thos.  Mitchell  moved,  that  a  committee  of  five  be 
appointed  to  make  necessarry  arrangements,  in  the  interest  of 
the  club,  for  the  celebration  of  the  centennial  of  Washington's 
inaugural,  April  30.  The  chair  named  as  such  committee:  Thos. 
Mitchell,  John  King,  Jr.,  G.  S.  Knapp,  P.  Burroughs  and  Michael 
McAuley. 

Adjourned  for  one  week. 

The  regular  meeting  of  the  club  was  called  to  order  by  Presi- 
dent David  Smith,  M.  D.,  April  13.  The  president  acknowledged 
his  thankfulness  and  pleasure  in  being  spared  to  again  be  at  his 
post  after  an  absence  of  several  weeks  in  Washington,  and  was 
delighted  to  see  so  many  of  the  "Boys"  ready  for  duty. 

Col.  Bennett,  chairman  of  committee  on  arrangements  for 
entertainment,  reported  that  the  committee  had  not  yet  been 
able  to  get  affairs  in  shape  for  a  complete  report  and  asked  that 
the  time  to  report  be  extended  to  the  next  meeting  of  the  club, 
which  was  granted. 

The  president  stated  he  had  received  two  letters  which  he 
requested  the  secretary  to  read: 

SPRINGFIELD,  MARCH  27,  1889. 

David  S.  Smith,  Esq.,  Prcs.  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  Chicago,  III.  : 
My  Dear  Sir: 

I  am  in  receipt  of  your  letter  of  March  27  and  notice  your 
kind  invitation  to  be  with  your  club  on  the  4th  of  April  ait 
Central  Music  Hall.  I  appreciate  your  kindness  in  remembering 
me,  and  regret  that  the  pressure  of  public  duties  here  will  prevent 
my  accepting  the  same.  Please  convey  to  the  members  of  your 
club  my  kindest  regards. 

Yours  very  truly, 

JOSEPH  W.  FIFER. 


48  MEMORIAL  BOOK  OF  THE 

EXECUTIVE  MANSION,  WASHINGTON,  APRIL  4,  1889. 
David  S.  Smith,  M.  D.,  Chic  ago,  III: 

The  president  directes  me  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of 
your  letter  of  the  30th  of  March  conveying  the  congratulations  of 
the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  and  to  express  to  you  and  to  the 
members  of  the  club  his  sincere  thanks  for  this  evidence  of  friendly 
regard.  Very  truly  yours, 

E.  W.  HALFORD,  Private  Secretary, 

On  motion  of  the  second  vice-president  said  letters  were  ordered 
to  be  spread  upon  the  records. 

Mr.  Henry  Sayrs,  in  behalf  of  the  club,  warmly  welcomed 
president  Smith  home  and  to  duty,  and  after  humorously  report- 
ing to  his  honor  as  requested  and  as  in  duty  bound,  how  gay  the 
"boys"  had  been  in  his  absence,  especially  on  the  evening  on  the 
fourth  instant,  submitted  the  following: 

CONGRATULATORY.  In  view  of  the  general  and  complete  gratifi- 
cation expressed  by  individual  members  of  our  club  and  others 
who  were  so  fortunate  as  to  be  present  and  partake  of  the  grand 
literary  and  musical  entertainment  given  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  at  Central  Music  Hall,  on  the  evening 
of  the  fourth  instant,  our  hearty  congratulations  are  extended 
to  the  committee  which  had  the  affair  in  charge,  their  "  pro- 
gram committee,"  Messrs  I.  A.  Fleming,  H.  M.  Garlick  and  G.  S. 
Knapp,  for  their  able  indefatigable  and  successful  co-operation 
are  entitled  to  the  highest  praise.  To  Mr.  I.  A.  Fleming  is  to  be 
accorded  the  credit  of  suggesting  a  public  entertainment  for  the 
benefit  of  the  club,  and  to  also  give  our  fellow  citizens  an  oppor- 
tunity to  become  better  acquainted  with  the  veterans,  and  at  the 
same  time,  at  a  merely  nominal  cost,  devote  an  evening  to 
unalloyed  pleasure.  Adopted  by  the  unanimous  voice  of  the  club. 

Colonel  Mitchell,  chairman  of  committee  on  centennial 
arrangements,  reported  that  no  general  program  had  been  map- 
ped out,  but  that  arrangements  had  been  made  for  clubs  to  march 
to  Central  Music  Hall,  and  he  asked  if  it  was  the  wish  of  this  club 
to  do  so.  Mr.  Williams,  Mr.  McAuley  and  Mr.  Prince  thought  it 
the  proper  thing  to  do — and  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we  meet  at  these  headquarters  on  April  30,  at 


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two  o'clock  p.  M.,  and  proceed  in  a  body  to  Central  Music  Hall, 
and  that  the  secretary  notify  the  chairman  of  the  centennial  com- 
mittee of  this  proposed  action  and  ask  that  100  to  150  seats  be 
reserved  for  us.  Carried. 

Mr.  Henry  Sayrs  presented  and  read  the  following: 
To  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  the  committee  on  publication 
beg  leave  to  report  as  follows:  The  forthcoming  club  history 
will,  in  our  opinion,  be  valuable  as  a  record  of  the  principles  and 
doctrines  of  the  whig  and  republican  parties,  as  illustrated  in  the 
biographical  and  autograph  album  of  the  "Old  Tippecanoes." 
You  can  believe  that  the  general  public  understand  that  the  "Old 
Tippecanoe  Club"  is  composed  of  veterans  of  the  political  cam- 
paigns of  1836-40 — when  General  William  Henry  Harrison  (Old 
Tippecanoe)  was  the  standard  bearer  of  the  whig  party  and  that  in 
order  to  be  an  "  Old  Tippecanoe"  it  was  necessary  for  one  to  be  not 
less  than  69  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  our  last  presidential  election. 
While  your  committee  have  the  highest  regard  for  our  younger 
members,  we  nevertheless  believe  that  the  personality  of  the 
"Old  Tippecanoes"  should  be  rigidly  maintained  in  both  the  bio- 
graphical and  autographic  collection,  as  by  so  doing  the  value  of 
the  work  as  a  souvenir  of  the  political  campaigns  of  1836-40  and 
1888  and  of  the  "Old  Tippecanoe  Club"  would  be  greatly 
enhanced.  Your  committee  would  therefore  respectfully  ask  the 
adoption  of  the  following  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  the  committee  on  publication  be,  and  here- 
by is,  authorized  to  insert  in  the  club  history  the  biographical 
sketches  and  authograph  signatures  of  such  members  only  who 
voted  for  or  assisted  in  the  election  of  William  Henry  Harrison 
for  president  and  such  other  matter  as  in  their  judgment  they  con- 
sider proper.  Carried. 


H.  M.  GARLICK,  SECRETARY, 


Oampaigfri    Poem. 


BY    CLARA    HOWARD. 

We're  nearly  all  beyond  the  age 
Of  three  score  years  and  ten, 

But  we  voted  once  for  Harrison, 
And  we'll  vote  that  way  again. 

Yes,  forty  years  and  more  ago 
(We  all  were  young  men  then), 

We  voted  straight  for  Tippecanoe, 
And  we'll  vote  that  way  again. 

'Twas  then  we  built  log  cabins, 
Baked  Johnny  cake  for  the  men 

Who  helped  elect  old  Tippecanoe 
And  we'll  "  take  the  cake  "  again. 

Each  year  our  ranks  are  thinning 
To  make  way  for  younger  men, 

We  soon  will  join  old  Tippecanoe; 
We  may  never  vote  again. 

But  we'll  uphold  no  free-trade  banner, 
And  we  want  no  free-trade  men; 

We've  ever  voted  for  the  right, 
And  we'll  vote  that  way  again. 

Here's  to  the  health  of  our  candidate, 
Please  pass  the  cider  again, 

We  drank  it  then  to  Tippecanoe, 
Now  we'll  drink  to  General  Ben. 


52  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

« 

He  comes  of  freedom-loving  stock, 
One  signed  the  Declaration; 

His  grandsire  fought  in  eighteen  twelve 
And  he  fought  to  save  our  nation. 

Then  give  three  cheers  and  a  tiger,  too, 
Join  in,  all  the  brave  old  men, 

As  we  voted  once  for  Tippecanoe 
We'll  shout  for  his  grandson,  Ben. 

For  Harrison,  then,  and  Morton,  too, 
Let  us  give  three  cheers  again; 

We'll  vote  once  more  for  Harrison 
Just  as  we  voted  then. 


Tippecarvoe  Trip  to  Ir\diar\apolis. 


The  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago,  accompanied  by  the 
La  Salle  Club  and  the  John  A.  Logan  Club,  in  all  about  1,100, 
visited  General  Harrison  at  Indianapolis,  on  September  29, 
George  M.  Pullman  Esq.,  generously  furnishing  the  Old  Tippe- 
canoes  with  his  best  and  most  elegant  palace  car.  Every  large 
town  reached,  thousands  had  gathered  to  see  and  greet  us. 
Short  speeches  were  made  by  our  president,  cheers  upon  cheers 
were  returned,  the  bands  playing  patriotic  airs;  the  cars  moving 
off  amid  the  most  wild  and  enthusiastic  cheers.  A  splendid  time 
all  along  the  entire  route  of  two-hundred  miles.  Starting  at  Chi- 
cago at  eight  A.  M.,  and  reaching  Indianapolis  at  four  p.  M.,  where 
we  were  met  by  a  large  gathering,  which  swelled  to  one  of  the 
greatest.  The  First  Regiment  Band  preceeded  us  from  the  depot 
along  the  streets  of  the  city,  amid  the  continued  cheers  of  the 
crowds  and  the  boom  of  an  elevated  cannon  between  the  ranks  of 
the  patriotic  veterans,  every  one  of  whom  wore  an  elegantly 
wrought  appropriate  silk  badge,  the  civil  and  military  under  pre- 
sented arms,  on  either  side  along  the  entire  distance  to  the  ample 
grounds  of  the  university,  provided  with  a  large  stand  for  our 
reception,  to  which  General  Harrison  was  escorted  amid  ringing 
cheers.  Judge  Green,  who  accompanied  us,  delivered  a  short 
speech  and  was  followed  by  our  Tippecanoe  president,  who 
delivered  the  following  address: 

"GENERAL  HARRISON:  The  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  which  hails 
from  Chicago,  and  which  comprises  nearly  three  hundred  mem- 
bers, has  commissioned  those  of  us  who  represent  them  here  to- 
day, to  convey  to  you  the  warmest  expressions  of  their  confi- 
dence and  esteem. 


54  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

In  the  discharge  of  that  pleasant  duty,  it  is  incumbent  upon 
us  to  take  into  consideration  the  almost  incessant  drafts  upon 
your  time  and  attention,  confident  that  you  will  not  undervalue 
our  assurances  of  regard  because  of  the  brevity  of  their  utterance. 
Suffice  it  to  say  that  many  of  our  members  shared  with  you  the 
trials  and  dangers  of  the  battlefield,  in  the  ever-memorable  con- 
flict for  the  preservation  of  the  Union,  and  all  of  us  are  united  in 
the  ardent  desire  for  your  triumphant  election  to  the  presidency 
of  the  United  States. 

That  desire  is  founded  upon  our  convictions,  that  the  con- 
tinued ascendancy  of  true  patriotic  loyalty  to  the  Union,  is 
opposed  by  the  ideas  and  practices  of  the  so-called  "Solid  South," 
that  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States  has  already  full 
enough  of  Democratic  flavor. 

That  there  is  also  an  excess  of  the  late  disloyal  element  in 
our  diplomatic  service;  that  the  paramount  issue  of  the  campaign 
challenges  the  championship  of  us  all  in  continuing  that  protec- 
tion of  American  industry  which  has  so  signally  advanced  the 
growth  and  greatness  of  our  Nation;  and  finally,  that  all  these, 
and  other  attendant  interests  of  our  common  country,  can  best 
be  fostered  and  secured  by  your  elevation  as  the  successful  stan- 
dard-bearer of  Republican  principles.  You  have  our  best  wishes 
now,  as  you  shall  have  our  ballots  in  November,  and  as  we  once 
cast  them  for  your  illustrious  grandsire." 

Then  General  Harrison  stepped  forward,  hat  in  hand,  and 
delivered  a  most  elegant,  happy  welcoming  speech  to  the  city  of 
Indianapolis;  then  turning  partly  around  and  facing  the  vast 
crowd,  extemporized  another  short,  impressive  speech  to  them, 
amid  deafening  cheers,  after  which  the  personal  introductions 
took  place — the  president  of  our  club  first  introducing  the 
first  vice-president,  following  which  each  member  had  the 
pleasure  of  taking  the  General  by  the  hand  and  wishing  him 
God  speed.  The  General  was  much  pleased  with  the  flag 
borne  by  us,  in  the  hands  of  William  Slosson,  son  of  the  vice- 
president.  It  was  an  old  silken  flag,  beautifully  wrought  by 
ladies  forty-eight  years  ago  in  the  most  exquisite  style  through- 
out, with  many  colored  silks,  and  was  in  the  convention 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  55 

which  nominated  the  grandfather  of  the  General  in  1840.  Waiv- 
ing the  General  adieu,  we  were  escorted  with  the  music  to  the 
New  Dennison  Hotel.  Satisfying  the  inner  man  we  were  soon 
charmingly  serenaded  for  our  amusement  by  the  same  Regi- 
mental Band  from  the  porch  above,  while  the  streets  were  bril- 
liantly illuminated  with  the  marvelous  natural  gas.  After  adieus 
once  again  the  band  marched  us  back  to  our  awaiting  Pullman  pal- 
ace train  for  our  city,  reaching  home  in  time  for  church  services. 


Qrand  Popular  Demonstration 

OF 
REPUBLICANS   IN   CHICAGO,   NOVEMBER   3,   1888. 


The  most  magnificent  of  all  Chicago  parades  in  the  last  pres- 
idential campaign  was  that  of  November  3,  of  which  so  many 
graphic  and  detailed  accounts  appeared  in  the  press  of  this  and 
other  cities  as  to  render  it  wholly  unnecessary  to  reproduce  them 
here. 

There  seemed  to  be  a  representation  of  every  trade  or  human 
industry  of  any  consequence  and  a  significant  fact  was  noticed 
that  scarcely  one  of  the  fifteen  thousand  men  in  line  was  not  a 
voter — all  good  men  and  true,  with  General  Harrison's  name 
inscribed  in  their  hearts  and  on  their  banners. 

It  was  conceded  by  the  press,  as  well  as  by  observers,  not  far 
from  a  million  of  people  that  had  congregated  to  witness  the 
superb  pageant,  that  the  most  impressive  feature  of  the  mighty 
demonstration  was  the  array  in  the  front  rank  of  the  procession 
of  the  members  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club. 

The  president,  vice-president  and  treasurer,  with  one  or  two 
invited  guests,  occupied  the  first  carriage,  followed  by  a  long 
train  of  other  open  carriages.  One  of  the  briefest  notices  of  the 
many  that  appeared  in  the  press  read  thus,  as  extracted:  "The 
carriages  are  filled  with  w-hite-headed  veterans  and  there  is  a  tre- 
mendous cheer  up  and  down  the  street,  that  is  taken  up  and 
repeated  by  people  in  the  windows.  The  white-beards  are  the 
Tippecanoe  veterans  of  1840.  Their  withered  cheeks  look  almost 


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57 


young  again.     They  forget  the  lapse  of  fifty'  years.     They  are 
back  with  Tippecanoe  and  are  happy." 

A  most  enthusiastic  reception  was  accorded  the  veterans  dur- 
ing the  entire  march  of  the  procession  and  they  were  greeted  with 
inspiring  shouts,  many  of  special  significance  such  as:  "We  shall 
follow  your  glorious  example"  etc. 


JKe  Old  Jippecar\oe  Quard. 


EXTRACT    FROM    THE    EDITORIAL    COLUMN    OF  THE  CHICAGO  TRIBUNE 
OF    NOVEMBER     12,     l888. 


While  the  "first  voters"  performed  their  work  gallantly  last 
Tuesday,  full  praise  and  recognition  must  be  made  for  the  splen- 
did services  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  voters.  The  old  men  over 
sixty-nine  who  infused  into  the  recent  campaign  something  of  the 
spirit  of  1840,  contributed  in  a  great  degree  to  the  election  of 
General  Harrison.  At  a  moderate  estimate  at  least  50,000  men 
who  voted  in  1840  survived  to  cast  their  ballots  last  Tuesday. 
The  old  Harrison  men  were  solid  for  young  Tippecanoe,  and  they 
brought  into  line  thousands  of  their  old  associates  who  voted  for 
Van  Buren  in  1840,  but  made  amends  in  1888  by  throwing  their 
ballots  for  the  second  Harrison.  As  the  Tribune  predicted  at  the 
beginning  of  the  campaign,  there  was  a  magic  in  the  name  of  Har- 
rison for  the  old  voters  who  passed  through  the  famous  campaign 
of  1840,  and  in  innumerable  homes  the  incidents  of  that  campaign 
were  recalled  in  the  last  five  months,  and  it  is  plain  that  such 
reminiscent  influences  did  not  tend  to  prejudice  the  republican 
party  or  the  republican  candidate. 

The  Old  Tippecanoe  voters  gave  to  the  recent  campaign  many 
of  the  most  interesting  features — they  introduced  again  into  the 
political  field  the  log  cabin,  the  historic  coon,  the  cider  barrel,  and 
some  of  the  old  songs  of  1840.  Most  of  the  Tippecanoe  veterans 
have  passed  the  age  for  active  electioneering,  but  they  had  great 
influence,  and  they  used  it  well. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  59 

These  old  men  were  the  founders  of  families — big  old  fashioned 
families — and  they  could  appeal  to  sons,  sons-in-law,  and  grand- 
sons as  no  one  else  could.  Shouldering  a  crutch  to  show  how 
fields  were  won,  they  would  point  out  the  untimely  death  of  "Old 
Tip,'  which  cheated  them  of  their  victory  and  caused  the  whig 
party  to  be  Tylerized,  and  for  this  reason  they  begged  the  younger 
men  to  help  them  put  in  "Young  Tip,"  so  that  a  Harrison  might 
yet  fill  out  a  presidential  term,  and  the  veterans  could  depart  in 
peace  after  their  eyes  had  seen  the  salvation  of  the  Lord.  The 
appeal  of  the  old  men  was  a  telling  one,  and  they  influenced  thou- 
sands of  doubtful  and  even  democratic  votes.  Many  of  these  old 
men  will  live  to  see  another  republican  adminstration,  and  some 
of  them  probably  two  or  three  more.  They  know  that  old  Whig 
principles,  such  as  the  protection  of  home  industry  and  the 
nationalization  of  the  currency,  for  which  they  struggled  in  their 
youth,  are  now  firmly  established  and  will  be  steadily  maintained 
by  the  Republican  party.  While  the  Tippecanoe  veterans  are  to 
be  complimented  and  congratulated  warmly  on  their  part  in  the 
recent  campaign,  the  grandmothers  should  not  be  forgotten.  As 
girls  in  1840  they  took  almost  as  much  interest  as  their  brothers 
and  lovers  in  the  success  of  "Old  Tip,"  and  in  1888  they  put  in 
many  a  quiet,  but  effective  word  that  influenced  sons,  sons-in-law, 
and  grandsons  to  vote  for  "Young  Tippecanoe." 


Biographical  Sketches 


OF    THE 


Members  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club, 

\VHO  VOTED  FOR,  OR  ASSISTED  IN  THE  ELECTION  OF, 
"OLD  TIP"  IN   1836-40. 


JAMES  ACKERMAN. 

Born  in  Poughkeepsie,  Dutches  county,  N.  Y.,  on  the  2ist  of 
August  1815.  His  parents  were  natives  of  the  State  of  New  York. 
He  followed  the  business  of  merchandising  in  the  city  of  Yonkers 
and  the  city  of  New  York.  In  1877  he  came  west  and  first  settled 
in  Milwaukee.  In  1881  he  came  to  Illinois  and  settled  in  Hyde 
Park,  where  he  now  resides.  He  voted  for  General  William 
Harrison  in  1836  and  1840,  and  for  General  Benjamin  Harrison 
in  1888. 

CHENEY   AMES 

Was  born  in  Mexico,  Oswego  county,  N.  Y.,  June  iQth,  1808. 
His  father,  Leonard  Ames,  was  one  of  the  sturdy  pioneers  of  that 
county.  At  an  early  age  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  "hatting" 
trade,  in  Cortland,  N.  Y.  His  aspirations  led  to  newer  fields  and 
a  desire  for  increased  knowledge  of  the  world.  In  1837  ne 
removed  to  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  and  identified  himself  closely  with 
the  commercial  interests  until  1886,  when  he  removed  to  Chicago. 
He  was  frequently  a  member  of  the  New  York  Legislature,  and  in 
1857  was  elected  to  the  Senate  of  that  state,  serving  as  Chairman 
of  Commerce  and  Navigation  Committees;  and  again  in  1857 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  6l 

was  returned  to  the  Senate.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he 
was  appointed  member  of  the  War  Committee  by  Gov.  Morgan, 
and  from  that  time  until  peace  was  declared  he  gave  his  entire 
attention  to  his  duties  in  that  capacity.  His  oldest  son  was  killed 
in  the  war.  Mr.  Ames  entered  very  zealously  into  the  campaign 
of  1840,  and  from  that  time  to  the  present  has  been  identified 
with  the  Whig  and  Republican  parties,  casting  his  last  vote  for 
Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison  in  1888. 


ROBERT  Y.  ASKIN. 

Cast  his  first  vote  for  "William  Henry  Harrison"  in  1840. 
He  has  also  voted  for  every  Whig  and  Republican  candidate  for 
president  up  to  the  present,  having  voted  for  Benjamin  Harrison 
in  November  to  succeed  "Cleveland."  He  has  a  good  war 
record,  having  fought  through  seven  hard-fought  battles  and 
several  skirmishes.  Being  too  old  to  be  subject  to  draft,  it  was 
of  course  voluntary,  as  he  was  not  in  favor  of  the  dissolution 
of  our  glorious  union  and  bitterly  opposed  to  slavery. 


CAPT.  HENRY  ASHBURY 

Was  born  in  Hansen  county,  Kentucky,  August  10,  1810;  moved 
to  Quincy,  Illinois  in  1834  and  has  resided  in  that  city  for  fifty- 
one  years.  Was  admitted  to  the  Bar,  March  1837  and  to  the  Cir- 
cuit court  of  the  United  States,  August  4,  1859,  and  has  also  held 
a  number  of  offices  by  the  suffrages  of  the  people,  and  appoint- 
ment by  presidents  of  the  United  States.  Voted  for  Henry  Clay 
in  1832  and  has  voted  with  the  Whig  and  Republican  candidates 
ever  since.  Captain  Ashbury  was  Provert  Marshall  of  the  Fourth 
Congressional  District  during  the  war  with  the  rank  and  pay  of 
Captain  of  Cavalry, and  is  now  known  as  "Old  Captain"  Ashbury. 


W.  B.  AYERS 


Was  born  March  2,  1822  at  Utica,  New  York  and  secured  not  only 
the  benefits  of  a  common  school  education  but  attended  some  of 
the  best  academies  of  the  day  and  commenced  the  study  of 


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medicine  in  1840  at  Fairfield  Medical  School,  the  only  one  west 
of  New  York.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  campaign  of  1840 
and  listened  to  such  eloquent  speakers  as  Clay,  Spencer  and 
Seward,  marching  in  log  cabin  processions  to  the  detriment  of 
his  studies  and  the  final  abandonment  of  thoroughly  learning  the 
medical  profession.  He  landed  in  Chicago  in  1849,  doing  various 
work  till  the  opening  of  the  Michigan  Southern  Railway,  when 
he  became  purser  of  the  steamer  Golden  Gate,  the  property  of 
that  company.  Later  he  deserted  Chicago  for  Buffalo,  where  he 
sunk  his  savings  of  years,  and  after  various  changes  again  returned 
to  Chicago  in  1868,  and  has  since  been  successful  and  happy.  A 
strong  Republican,  he  voted  "straight  in  '88." 


LEONIDAS  V.    BADGER, 

Another  son  of  New  England,  born  at  the  town  of  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.,  June  25th,  1806,  and  now  in  his  eighty-third  year.  He 
sagely, and  with  respect  of  truth, says:  ."I  have  not  yet  been  able 
to  see  any  advantage  in  voting  with  the  Democratic  party,"  from 
which  it  may -readily  be  inferred  that  Mr.  Badger  is,  and  has  ever 
been,  a  Whig  or  Republican.  His  first  vote  for  president  was  in 
1832,  his  first  Harrisonian  vote  in  1836,  his  second,  with  better 
success,  in  1840,  and  his  last  for  the  grandson  in  1888.  Mr.  Bad- 
ger was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  association — a  modest, 
earnest  gentleman. 


HENRY   BALDWIN 

Was  born  September  iQth,  1817,  on  Greenfield  Hill,  town  of  Fair- 
field,  Fairfield  county,  Connecticut.  He  attended  the  common 
schools  of  Connecticut,  and  he  says:  "They  were  pretty  common 
too."  He  used  to  get  thrashed  two  and  three  times  a  day,  and 
was  politically  a  Whig  until  the  origin  of  the  Republican  party. 
He  voted  for  General  William  H.  Harrison  in  1840  in  the  town  of 
Fairfield,  and  voted  for  General  Benjamin  Harrison  at  Riverside, 
Cook  county,  Illinois,  1888. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  63 

WILLIAM   G.   BALDWIN 

Was  born  the  27th  of  April,  1807,  at  Bedford,  Hillsboro  county, 
N.  H.,  moving  to  Hopkinston,  St.  Lawrence  county,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  remained  until  1837.  ^n  1840,  at  Bristol,  Vt.,  he  cast  his  first 
vote  for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison.  In  1852  Mr.  Baldwin 
removed  to  Illinois,  living  in  Woodstock  for  three  years,  after 
which  time  he  lived  in  Chicago,  casting  his  last  vote  for  General 
Benjamin  Harrison. 

LILIBRIDGE  BARBER, 

Son  of  Col.  Edward  Barber,  a  soldier  of  the  war  of  1812,  was  born 
in  Hopkinton,  Washington  county,  R.  I.,  August  31,  1815;  work- 
ing at  home  on  a  large  farm  and  at  carpentering  until  1837.  He 
cast  his  first  vote  for  Martin  Van  Buren  in  1836,  but  changed  for 
the  better  in  1840,  when  he  voted  for  Harrison.  In  1858  Mr. 
Barber  removed  to  Edgerton,  Wis.,  where  he  remained  until  1867, 
when  he  moved  to  Janesville,  and  in  1868  to  Chicago,  where  he 
has  since  resided,  intending  to  prosecute  the  carpenter  business; 
but  finding  times  dull,  he  entered  the  elevator  of  Munn  &  Scott 
as  carpenter  foreman,  going  into  real  estate  after  the  big  fire, 
which  is  still  his  calling.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barber  celebrated  their 
golden  wedding  December  25th,  1886,  and  is  still  blessed  with 
the  company  of  his  companion. 


JOSEPH    PULSIFER    BARTLETT, 

Born  in  Campton,  Grafton  county,  New  Hampshire,  January  16, 
1810;  voted  in  1832,  at  Meredith,  N.  H.,  for  Henry  Clay;  in  1836, 
at  Hanover,  N.  H.,  for  William  Wirt;  in  1840  for  William  Henry 
Harrison,  at  Rockford,  Winnebago  county,  111.;  in  1888  voted  for 
General  Benjamin  Harrison,  at  Campton,  Kane  county,  111. 


JARED    BASSETT, 

One  of  Chicago's  oldest  residents,  having  removed  here  in 
1 8 16,  from  Montpelier,  Washington  county,  Vermont,  where  he 
was  born  January  26th.,  1814.  In  1836,  and  again  in  1840,  he 


64  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

voted  for  General  Harrison  at  Montpelier,  Vt.,  voting  for  General 
Harrison — the  grandson  in  1888.  Mr.  Bassett  is  a  well  known 
citizen  and  has  ever  held  fast  to  the  Whig  principles  of  his 
ancestor. 


A.  T.   BATES. 

Born  in  Westfield,  Mass.,  1813;  removed  with  parents  to 
Trumbull  county,  Ohio,  in  the  year  1829;  voted  for  General 
William  Henry  Harrison  in  1836;  removed  from  Trumbull  county 
to  Portage  county,  Ohio,  in  1838;  voted  for  General  William 
Henry  Harrison  in  1840;  came  to  Chicago  in  1866,  and  has  resided 
here  most  of  the  time  since.  He  now  resides  at  154  Oakley  Ave. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  BEECHER, 

Eldest  son  of  Lyman  Beecher,  D.  D.,  and  Roxana  Foote,  his  wife, 
was  born  at  East  Hampton,  L.  I.,  January  15,  1802. 

Delicate  in  early  youth  he  was  not  sent  to  college,  but  studied 
at  home;  he  received  the  degree  of  M.  A.,  from  Yale  College, 
though  never  connected  in  any  other  way  with  that  institution. 
He  studied  Theology  at  Andover,  and  with  his  father,  then  in 
Boston.  In  1835  ne  went  to  Ohio  and  was  for  twenty  years  an  active 
home  missionary  in  the  new  state.  By  his  clear  common  sense, 
energy  and  enthusiasm  for  the  work,  he  was  able  to  securely 
found  a  number  of  churches  and  schools,  still  flourishing. 

He  possessed  in  a  large  degree  that  clear  insight  and  good 
judgment  which  results  in  what  is  called  "common  sense;"  his 
critical  ability  was  of  the  highest  order;  his  uprightness  unques- 
tioned. Anti-slavery,  Free-soil,  Republican,  the  sequence  was  a 
natural  one. 

He  is  living  at  the  family  residence,  108  Honore  Street,  Chi- 
cago, crippled  and  enfeebled  in  body;  but  awaiting  the  summons 
to  go  forth,  in  perfect  self-possession.  Aged  eighty-seven. 

Being  an  anti-slavery  man  his  interest  in  politics  was  always 
deep — the  election  of  the  right  man  a  thing  of  vast  importance. 
He  remembers  the  enthusiasm  of  the  campaign  of  William  Henry 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  65 

Harrison — its  songs  and  the  political  issue;  took  part  in  it  to  some 
extent — voting  for  him. 

His  enfeebled  condition  prevented  him  from  voting  for  Gen- 
eral Benjamin  Harrison;  but  his  interest  was  unabated  and  pro- 
found, his  confidence  in  ultimate  success  unshaken  and  his 
satisfaction  in  the  result  is  in  proportion. 


REZIN   J.  BENNETT. 

My  grandfather  Bennett  was  a  native  of  Maryland — his 
family  being  one  of  the  first  to  land  where  the  city  of  Baltimore 
now  is.  He  served  through  the  Revolutionary  War,  as  a  soldier 
under  General  Washington. 

My  father,  Samuel  Bennett,  was  born  and  raised  on  a  farm  in 
Baltimore  county.  In  1794  he  married  Rebecca  Borham,  who 
was  born  and  raised  near  Mt.  Vernon,  Va.,  and  was  well  acquainted 
with  General  George  Washington  and  his  wife,  Martha. 

My  parents  settled  on  a  farm  in  Frederick  county,  Maryland, 
where  I  was  born  August  7,  1815.  I  was  the  youngest  of  ten 
children,  being  the  seventh  son.  In  1817  my  father,  with  his  fam- 
ily, emigrated  west  in  a  common  road  wagon.  Hotels  and  farm 
houses  were  few  and  far  between.  This  fact  made  it  necessary  for 
them  to  cook  their  own  meals  by  the  roadside  and  sleep  in  and 
under  the  wagon  much  of  the  time.  After  their  long  and  weari- 
some journey,  we  crossed  the  Ohio  river  and  located  in  Jefferson 
county,  Ohio;  took  up  quarters  in  a  log  cabin,  where  a  clearing 
had  been  made.  We  immediately  proceeded  to  build  a  hewed 
log  house.  After  completing  this  we  proceeded  to  make  prepa- 
ration to  put  in  a  spring  crop. 

In  1818  my  father  died,  leaving  my  mother  with  her  ten 
children  in  a  new  country,  with  few  neighbors  and  very  few 
schools,  the  latter  ranging  in  distance  from  five  to  ten  miles,  and 
being  presided  over  by  such  teachers  as  could  be  had  in  such  a 
country.  The  extent  of  the  years  schooling  was  three  months, 
making  it  very  difficult  to  obtain  even  a  common  school  educa- 
tion. 

All  of  the  members  of  a  farmer's  family  had  hard  labor  to 
perform.  At  the  age  of  twelve  I  could  perform  the  work  of  a  full 


66  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

grown  man  on  the  farm.  At  that  time  we  had  no  such  farming 
implements  as  are  now  used.  We  had  to  use  wooden  plows, 
and  harrows  with  wooden  teeth.  Our  small  grain  was  cut  with  a 
reap  hook  and  then  thrashed  out  with  a  frail,  out  doors  on  the 
ground — the  grain  being  separated  from  the  chaff  by  shaking  it 
through  a  wooden  sieve  and  using  a  common  bed  sheet  for  a 
wind-mill. 

I  remained  on  the  farm  until  about  1837.  ^  then  went  to  Cadiz, 
the  county  seat  of  Harrison  county,  Ohio,  and  entered  a  general 
store  as  clerk  for  an  elder  brother,  and  remained  with  him  until 
1844.  He  at  that  time  removed  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  I  remaining  in 
Cadiz,  carrying  on  the  same  business.  In  1847  I  was  elected 
Mayor  of  that  town,  serving  two  terms,  refusing  to  serve  longer. 
I  afterward  served  as  Sheriff  and  Treasurer  of  my  county.  I  was 
for  twenty  years  a  member  of  the  Whig  County  Central 
Committee,  being  also  a  member  of  the  State  Central  Committee 
during  a  portion  of  that  time,  and  well  remember  the  campaign 
of  1824,  although  only  a  boy  of  nine  years.  John  Quincy  Adams, 
General  Jackson  and  W.  H.  Crawford,  were  the  leading  candi- 
dates for  the  presidency— no  one  receiving  a  majority  of  the 
electoral  votes,  John  Quincy  Adams  was  elected  President  by 
the  House  of  Representatives.  I  felt  quite  an  interest  in  the  elec- 
tion of  1828.  Adams  and  Jackson  were  the  candidates.  Jackson 
was  elected — to  my  great  sorrow — and  re-elected  in  1832.  In 
1836  I  cast  my  first  vote  for  General  William  Henry  Harrison,  at 
Mt.  Pleasant,  Jefferson  county,  Ohio.  I  took  a  deep  interest  in 
this  campaign.  Although  he  was  defeated  by  Martin  Van  Buren, 
I  had  great  hope  that  at  the  next  election  the  Whig  party  could 
elect  General  Harrison.  The  Whigs  called  a  national  convention 
and  nominated  him  the  candidate  for  the  party.  When  the  cam- 
paign opened  I  organized  a  singing  club  of  twelve  boys.  We 
rigged  a  canoe  on  wheels— with  a  buckeye  busJi  in  front,  with  a 
live  coon  chained  to  the  top  of  it.  We  traveled  over  the  country 
singing  for  "Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too,"  and  for  Tom  Corwin, 
the  wagoner  boy,  who  was  a  candidate  for  Governor.  We  also 
formed  a  log  cabin  club  in  Cadiz.  I  was  elected  Secretary  and 
Treasurer.  We  built  a  large  log  cabin  in  the  town  for  holding 


•If 


R.  J.  BENNETT,  SECOND  VICE-PRESIDENT. 


68  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

meetings — it  was  also  used  as  a  reading  room — the  citizens  leav- 
ing their  papers  etc.,  there  for  the  use  of  the  public.  During  the 
campaign  General  Harrison,  in  passing  through  the  state,  called. 
A  meeting  was  held  to  hear  him  speak  at  Cadiz.  On  Monday  a 
committee  was  appointed  to  invite  and  convey  him  to  Cadiz. 
These  gentlemen  chartered  a  new  four  horse  coach  and  met 
the  General  at  Wooster.  They  arrived  on  Saturday.  A  large  com- 
pany of  people  on  horseback  met  them  about  six  miles  out 
and  escorted  them  to  the  town.  The  General  stopped  at  my 
brother's  house,  staying  there  until  Tuesday,  attending  the  Pres- 
byterian church  on  Sunday.  We  all  esteemed  it  a  great  pleasure 
to  entertain  so  great  and  good  a  man.  I  will  never  forget  the 
pride  I  took  in  sitting  and  breaking  bread  at  the  same  table  and 
walking  to  and  from  church  with  the  man  I  so  much  admired. 

Horace  Greeley,  of  New  York,  started  a  paper  called  The 
Log  Cabin.  I  was  instructed  to  subscribe  for  one  hundred  copies 
for  distribution.  The  paper  was  continued  through  the  campaign 
until  after  the  inauguration.  The  last  number  gave  a  full  account 
of  the  inauguration  and  address,  with  a  return  of  the  votes  of 
each  state  by  counties.  The  last  page  contained  a  prospectus  of 
the  New  York  Tribune,  to  be  published  by  Horace  Greeley.  I 
succeeded  in  getting  a  number  of  subscribers  for  the  first  number. 
Three  years  ago,  on  a  visit  to  my  old  home  in  Ohio,  I  found 
families  still  taking  the  New  York  Tribune. 

After  the  defeat  of  General  Scott,  the  Whig  candidate  in  1852, 
there  was  no  permanent  organized  party  to  oppose  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  leaving  a  large  number  at  sea,  not  knowing  how  to 
concentrate  their  power  in  opposition  to  the  slave  party.  In  1855 
the  friends  of  freedom  and  an  honest  government  called  a  con- 
vention at  Columbus,  Ohio,  inviting  all  persons  opposed  to  the 
extension  of  slavery  and  the  doctrine  of  the  so-called  Democratic 
party.  I  was  a  delegate  to  that  convention  that  formed  the 
Republican  party.  The  convention  was  organized  by  electing 
Hon.  John  Sherman,  President,  forming  the  first  platform  of  the 
Republican  party  in  the  state,  and  nominating  Salmon  P.  Chase 
for  Governor.  He  was  elected,  serving  two  terms.  I  was  dele- 
gate to  the  National  Convention  held  in  Chicago  in  1860,  nomi- 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  69 

nating  Lincoln  for  President;  was  also  delegate  to  convention 
held  in  Baltimore  in  1864,  when  Lincoln  was  renominated;  was 
also  a  delegate  when  General  Grant  was  nominated  in  1868.  I 
attended  the  convention  when  Garfield  was  nominated  in  1880, 
and  in  the  convention  when  Elaine  was  nominated  in  1884,  and 
General  Harrison  in  1888.  Have  personally  known  all  the  Pre- 
sidents, commencing  with  John  Quincy  Adams,  up  to  the  present, 
excepting  Martin  Van  Buren  and  General  Pierce.  As  I  have  already 
stated,  my  first  vote  for  President  was  for  General  Harrison  in 
1836;  for  Harrison  in  '40;  Clay  in  '44;  Zach.  Taylor  in  '48; 
General  Scott  in  '52;  General  Fremont  in  '56;  Lincoln  in  '60  and 
'64;  Grant  in  '68  and  '72;  Hayes  in  '76;  Garfield  in  '80;  Elaine  in 
'84,  and  General  Ben.  Harrison  in  '88.  Have  cast  my  vote  at 
every  election,  City,  County,  State  and  National,  since  '36.  In 
'60  I  was  holding  a  position  in  the  House  of  Representatives, 
under  Col.  John  \V.  Forney,  then  Clerk  of  the  House.  I  belonged 
to  a  company  of  Home  Guards  in  Washington,  Col.  Forney  being 
the  commanding  officer  of  the  company.  Being  home  on  a  vaca- 
tion when  Sumpter  was  fired  on  by  the  rebels,  was  telegraphed 
by  Forney  to  report  in  Washington,  to  shoulder  my  musket  to 
defend  the  government.  I  immediately  left  Ohio  and  received 
my  musket,  and  retained  the  same  until  the  close  of  the  war,  being 
in  the  field  much  of  the  time.  In  '64  I  was  appointed  paymaster 
in  the  Regular  Army,  by  President  Lincoln,  grade  of  Major; 
received  my  commission;  was  breveted  Colonel;  resigned  in  '66 
on  account  of  sickness  in  my  family,  much  against  the  will  of 
Secretary  Stanton.  Soon  after  I  was  appointed  Internal  Revenue 
Inspector,  stationed  at  Cadiz;  held  my  position  until  the  office 
was  abolished  by  act  of  Congress.  I  was  then  appointed  Inspector 
of  Customs  at  the  Port  of  New  York;  remained  there  two  years, 
resigned  and  retired  to  Ohio.  I  was  then  appointed  and  com- 
missioned Treasury  Agent,  located  at  Chicago,  spent  some 
time  at  Topeka,  Kansas,  on  duty.  I  then  returned  to  Chicago 
and  was  transferred  to  the  position  of  Inspector  of  Customs, 
Port  of  Chicago,  remaining  in  that  position  until  after  the 
election  of  Grover  Cleveland,  who  appointed  Mr.  Seeberger 
Collector  of  the  Port  of  Chicago.  Soon  after  I  was  requested 


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by  Mr.  Seeberger  to  hand  in  my  resignation  on  account  of 
my  known  Republicanism,  and  the  further  fact  that  my  place 
was  wanted  for  a  Democrat.  I  promptly  did  as  requested  and 
made  way  for  a  hungry  Democrat.  I  was  too  good  a  Republican 
to  serve  under  a  Democratic  administration,  and  here  I  am  a 
member  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago,  consisting  of 
five  hundred  members,  and  being  honored  by  the  club  as  one  of 
its  vice-presidents. 

I  herewith  give  you  a  fac-simile  of  the  badge  I  wore  in  '40.  I 
also  have  a  fine  silk  badge  worn  in  '44  that  takes  me  back  to  the 
days  when  my  interest  and  enthusiasm  was  younger,  but  not 
greater  than  in  '88. 

PH1NEAS  M.   BLODGETT 

Was  born  November  iSth.jSoQ,  at  Groton,  N.  Y.  His  father  was 
a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and  was  at  one  time  a  prisoner  of  H. 
R.  M.  George  III;  confined  in  the  old  sugar  house  in  New  York 
City,  but  was  smart  enough  to  escape,  and  again  joined  the  patriot 
army.  Mr.  P.  M.  Blodgett  cast  his  first  vote  in  1832  for  Henry 
Clay;  in  1836  for  Wm.  H.  Harrison  and  for  every  Whig  and 
Republican  candidate  since  that  date,  including  his  latest  vote  for 
General  B.  Harrison.  In  1840  he  joined  an  enthusiastic  party  of 
young  voters  who  went  from  Ithica  to  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  to  attend 
a  glorious  mass  meeting  for  "Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too,"  and 
forty-eight  years  later,  older,  wiser,  more  sedate,  but  not  less 
enthusiastic,  he  joined  the  grey  beards  of  1888,  in  their  call  on 
General  Benjamin  Harrison  and  their  subsequent  rejoicing  at  his 
success.  Was  commissioned  Captain,  Ind.  Rifle  Co.,  in  1840. 

JAMES  WOODBb'RY   BOYDEN 

Was  born  May  18,  1822,  at  Beverly  Farms,  near  the  north  shore 
of  Massachusetts  Bay — an  hour's  ride  from  Boston. 

His  mother  was  an  only  daughter  of  James  Woodbury,  whose 
grandfather  Robert  Woodbury  was  Beverly's  second  town  clerk. 
As  early  as  1630,  John  and  William  Woodbury — from  whom  the 
Woodburys  of  New  England  descended — emigrated  from  Somer- 
setshire, England,  and  settled  permanently  in  Beverly,  Mass. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  7 1 

James  Woodbury  died  in  his  eighty-ninth  year  ( 1842)  and  devised 
one  of  the  picturesque  and  beautiful  Beverly  farms  to  his  grand 
children — of  whom  James  Woodbury  Boyden,  of  Chicago,  and 
Albert  Woodbury  Boyden,  of  Sheffield,  Illinois,  survive. 

Dr.  Wyatt  Clark  Boyden,  their  father,  was  son  of  Dr.  Joseph 
Boyden,  of  Sturbridge,  Mass. — who  married  Mary  Heywood,  of 
Gardner,  Mass.,  and  practiced  medicine  in  Tamworth,  New 
Hampshire.  Dr.  Wyatt  C.  Boyden  was  a  Dartmouth  College 
graduate  (1819),  and  classmate  of  brilliant  and  genial  Rufus. 
Choate — the  superior  in  talent  and  acquirement  over  all  his 
college  mates.  Not  far  from  Mr.  Choate's  native  place  (Essex), 
his  classmate,  Boyden,  taught  school  at  Beverly  Farms.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Woodbury,  was  a  successful  physician,  and  died 
in  his  eighty-fifth  year  ( 1879).  He  outlived  the  wife  of  his  youth, 
and  second  wife — Lydia  Leavitt  Lincoln,  of  Boston,  mother  of 
Mary  Boyden — of  Martha,  wife  of  Rev.  Stephen  W.  Webb,  and 
William  Cowper  Boyden,  of  Beverly. 

Mrs.  James  Woodbury  was  niece  of  Nathan  Dane,  of  Beverly, 
the  eminent  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  from  Massachu- 
setts, who  drafted  the  Ordinance  of  1787  for  the  government  of 
the  territory  north  west  of  the  river  Ohio.  Rev.  Manassah 
Cutler,  a  leading  member  of  the  New  England  Colony  at  Marietta, 
Ohio,  was  one  of  Dane's  constituents,  and  active  in  securing  for 
this  ordinance  the  unanimous  approval  of  Congress.  By  it  the 
fundamental  principles  of  civil  and  religious  liberty,  morality  and 
knowledge  were  forever  established  as  the  basis  of  all  laws,  con- 
stitutions and  governments  of  the  five  states  of  Ohio,  Indiana, 
Illinois,  Michigan  and  Wisconsin.  The  Sixth  Article — "That 
there  shall  be  neither  slavery  nor  involuntary  servitude  in  the 
said  territory" — was  proposed  by  Nathan  Dane,  as  an  amend- 
ment, on  the  second  reading  of  the  ordinance — and  this  amend- 
ment was  unanimously  adopted  by  Congress.  Mr.  Dane  subse- 
quently published  an  Abridgment  of  American  Law — donated 
the  profits  to  Harvard  University,  as  the  foundation  of  a  Law 
Professorship,  and  secured  the  services  of  Mr.  Justice  Story  of  the 
U.  S.  Supreme  Court,  as  Dane  Professor  of  Law  from  1829  till 
1845.  When  Mr.  Dane  died,  his  last  words  were  to  his  executor,. 


72  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

Henry  Larcom — "I  wish  you  to  see  my  last  letter  to  Judge  Story 
executed" — and  so  the  copyright  of  Dane's  Abridgment  was 
donated  to  Harvard  University. 

James  Woodbury  Boyden,  and  the  other  children  of  Dr.  W.  C. 
Boyden,  were  faithfully  educated  by  their  father  at  home — and 
at  schools.  James  began  to  attend  school,  when  four  years  old; 
recited  Latin  to  his  father  at  eight;  and  at  fifteen  left  Beverly 
Academy  to  assist  his  uncle,  Joseph  Boyden,  principal  of  Charles- 
town  Academy,  near  Harper's  Ferry,  in  Jefferson  county,  Vir- 
ginia. He  was  employed  as  private  tutor  in  Smithfield,  in  the 
same  county,  by  Dr.  Samuel  Scollay,  a  Harvard  graduate  (1808), 
who  delig'hted  to  recite  this  last  verse  of  a  Harvard  commence- 
ment valedictory: 

"Valete,  Senes — ccelum  visuri ! 
Valete,   Juvenes — viribus  ornati ! 
Valete,  Virgines — luce  blandiores  ! 
Valete  atque  Plebs." 

In  May,  1838,  he  visited  the  city  of  Washington.  Young 
Boyden  walked  to  Harper's  Ferry  and  took  passage  on  a  canal 
boat  of  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  canal  to  Georgetown.  He 
gladly  improved  his  opportunity  to  see  and  hear  Henry  Clay, 
Daniel  Webster,  John  Quincy  Adams,  John  C.  Calhoun,  Silas 
Wright,  and  other  eminent  statesmen,  in  Congress  assembled. 

Boyden  in  August,  1838  entered  Harvard  College.  He  was 
awarded  Aiken's  British  Poets,  under  Hopkins'  legacy  "pro  in- 
signi  in  studiis  diligcntia."  The  second  year,  he  was  an  active 
member  of  "The  Institute  of  1770" — one  of  the  literary  and 
debating  clubs — and  prepared  a  history  of  the  Institute. 

During  the  Tippecanoe  presidential  campaign  of  1840,  he 
assisted  friends  of  the  successful  candidate — General  William 
Henry  Harrison.  He  addressed  political  meetings,  marched  in 
processions,  wrote  articles  for  the  Salem  Register  and  did  all 
that  he  could  lawfully  in  behalf  of  the  hero  of  Tippecanoe. 

In  December,  1840,  he  went  to  Accomac  county,  Virginia — 
then  represented  in  Congress  by  Hon.  Henry  A.  Wise — and  was 
Principal  of  the  Academy  near  Belle  Haven,  until  his  return  north 


JAMES   W.  BOYDEN. 


74  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

to  complete  college  studies.     He  joined  the  junior  class,  at  Dart- 
mouth, during  the  winter  of  1841-2. 

Love  for  fair  Harvard  brought  him  again  to  Alma  Mater  in 
the  spring  of  1842.  She  inspired  him  to  make  the  best  use  of 
junior  and  senior  class  privileges.  He  was  graduated  in  August, 
1843,  with  the  honor  of  distinction  in  Political  Economy — the 
department  of  Professor  Jared  Sparks.  The  theme  of  his  Com- 
mencement Disquisition  was  "The  Attraction  of  Literary  Eccentri- 
city." He  was  awarded  one  of  the  Boylston  prizes  for  a  Latin 
declaration.  In  addition  to  the  usual  diploma,  he  had  diplomas 
for  special  courses  in  Latin  and  Grreek,  for  those  who  intended  to 
teach.  The  oldest  Harvard  alumni,  in  point  of  class  graduation 
now  living  in  Chicago — are  James  Woodbury  Boyden  of  the  class 
of  1843  arjd  Samuel  Sewall  Greeley  of  the  class  of  1844. 

Mr.  Boyden  next  resided  with  his  father  at  home,  teaching 
school  about  seventeen  months.  During  this  time  he  read  Black- 
stone's  Commentaries,  under  the  direction  of  Hon.  Robert  Ran- 
toul,  Jr. 

In  February,  1845,  ne  returned  to  Cambridge,  and  attended 
Justice  Story's  and  Prof.  Greenleaf's  lectures  at  the  Law  School 
eighteen  months.  Among  his  fellow  students  were  Thomas  B. 
Bryan,  Lewis  H.  Boutelle,  John  Borden,  Cyrus  Bentley,  Sanford 
B.  Perry  and  Ira  Scott,  well  known  members  of  the  Chicago  bar: 
— also,  R.  B.  Hayes,  ex-president  of  the  United  States;  William 
A.  Richardson,  Chief  Justice  of  the  U.  S.  Court  of  Claims;  Walter 
S.  Cox,  the  Washington  Judge  who  tried  and  sentenced  Guiteau 
for  murder  of  Garfield;  John  Lowell,  U.  S.  Judge  in  Boston — and 
the  eloquent  Anson  Burlingame,  Representative  in  Congress  and 
U.  S.  Minister  to  China  and  Russia.  After  Judge  Story's  death 
(September  1845), tne  Law  students  chose  a  committee  (of  which 
Boyden  was  a  member)  to  select  an  artist  to  paint  the  portrait  of 
the  honored  Justice,  Professor  and  Author,  which  was  placed  in 
the  lecture  room,  near  that  of  Nathan  Dane,  in  perpetuam  mem- 
oriam. 

In  July,  1846,  on  application  to  Professor  Greenleaf  by  Hon. 
Edward  Dickinson  of  Amherst,  Mass.,  for  a  law  student  and 
future  partner,  Mr.  Boyden  was  recommended.  After  six  months* 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  75 

study  in  Mr.  Dickinson's  office,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He 
practiced  law  in  Hampshire  and  Franklin  counties — (Western 
Massachusetts) — thirteen  years;  and  was  elected  to  many  offices 
of  trust  and  responsibility.  In  this  fertile  and  fruitful  valley, 
watered  by  Connecticut  river,  he  assisted  in  organizing  and  mak- 
ing a  success  of  Hampshire  Agricultural  Society,  and  was  its  sec- 
retary and  treasurer  ten  years.  He  was  five  years  treasurer  and 
clerk  of  the  town  of  Amherst,  and  was  one  of  the  school  com- 
mittee. At  the  organization  of  an  artillery  company,  he  was  first 
sergeant  and  subsequently  third,  second  and  first-lieutenant. 
He  was  promoted  major  and  colonel,  and  resigned  command  of 
the  regiment  (3rd  Mass,  artillery),  when  reorganized  as  infantry. 
He  was  one  of  the  secretaries  of  the  state  convention  of  June  4th, 
1856,  at  Worcester,  which  nominated  delegates  to  the  first  Nat- 
ional Convention  of  the  Republicans  in  Philadelphia.  In  Nov- 
ember, 1857,  he  was  elected  to  the  legislature  by  the  people  of 
Hampshire  and  Franklin  Senatorial  District.  Fie  served  on  the 
joint  committees  on  Probate,  Chancery  and  Military  Affairs. 

The  Hampshire  and  Franklin  Express  (Nov.  4,  1859),  refer- 
ing  to  Mr.  Boyden's  removal  to  Chicago,  said:  "The  well  known 
secretary  of  the  Hampshire  Agricultural  Society  has  left  this 
town  to  locate  in  Chicago.  To  his  exertions  is  the  Agricultural 
Society  indebted  for  its  flourishing  condition.  He  represented 
this  county  at  the  Senate  Board  with  great  credit.  He  has  also 
been  honored  by  the  people  with  many  other  tokens  of  their  ap- 
preciation, and  leaves  behind  him  many  warm  friends,  who  regret 
his  removal,  but  wish  his  continued  success  in  his  new  field." 

Col.  Boyden  came  to  Chicago  in  November,  1859.  For  two 
years  (1862- 1 864),  he  was  United  States  Agent  for  paying  army 
and  navy  pensions  to  Northern  Illinois  pensioners.  Several  years 
after  the  war,  he  was  employed  to  obtain  pensions  for  invalids  and 
for  widows  and  children  of  men  who  died  in  defense  of  the  Union. 

In  domestic  relations,  he  has  been  highly  favored.  He  was  first 
married  May  18,  1847  (25tn  birth  day),  to  Miss  Eliza  Otis  Taylor 
Dickinson,  youngest  daughter  of  Hon.  John  Dickinson — Probate 
Judge  (1820  to  1837)  for  Washington  County,  Maine.  Mrs.  Eliza 
O.  T.  Boyden  died  March  24,  1857,  the  mother  of  Mary — now 


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widow  of  Rev.  Edgar  Foster  of  Calais,  Maine: — of  Lillie,  wife  of 
George  H.  Eaton,  of  Calais: — and  of  John  Dickinson  Boyden,  who 
represented  Tamworth,  in  the  New  Hampshire  Legislature  of 
1887-1888. 

He  was  married  June  19,  1861  to  Miss  Frances  S.  Kingsbury, 
daughter  of  Major  Lawson  Kingsbury,  of  Framingham,  Mass. — an 
officer  in  the  war  of  1812.  Mrs.  Frances  S.  Boyden,  after  the  Chi- 
cago fire  of  1871,  was  in  charge  of  a  department  of  the  Chicago  Re- 
lief and  Aid  Society,  and  has  been  prominent  in  church  and  chari- 
table work.  Their  children  were  Charles  Kingsbury,  who  died 
young; — Annie  Kingsbury  Boyden — and  Frederick  Kingsbury 
Boyden,  paying-teller  of  Reid,  Murdoch  &  Co. — who  died  April 
2,  1889,  from  the  effects  of  a  bycicle  collision  on  Ashland  Ave- 
nue, corner  of  Jackson  street. 

Five  years  (1878 — 1883),  Col.  Boyden  practiced  law  in  the 
State  of  Nevada.  He  was  employed  by  Chicago  parties,  inter- 
ested in  the  construction  of  the  Nevada  Central  Railway — which 
connects  the  Central  Pacific,  at  Battle  Mountain,  with  Austin  and 
the  Reese  River  Mining  District.  After  a  pleasant  residence  West 
of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  he  returned  to  Chicago  in  May,  1883, 
for  the  improvement  of  Mrs.  Boyden's  health  and  their  children's 
education  in  Chicago  schools. 

He  has  since  been  identified  with  real  estate,  and  was  four  years 
(i883-'87)  with  S.  H.  Kerfoot  &  Co.— the  oldest  and  one  of  the 
most  prominent  offices  in  the  real  estate  business. 

Mr.  Boyden  has  been  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Historical  So- 
ciety, of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  Knights  of 
Pythias,  Good  Templars  and  the  Chicago  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association. 


JOSEPH   W.   BRACKETT 

Was  born  January  iQth,  1815,  at  Cherry  Valley,  Otsego  county, 
New  York,  and  was  appointed  midshipman  in  U.  S.  Navy  in  1831, 
serving  three  years  on  the  U.  S.  Sloop  of  War,  "  Falmouth."  He 
studied  for  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York  City,  and 
was  subsequently  a  partner  of  Hon.  T.  C.  Chettenden.  In  '48  he 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  77 

rounded  Cape  Horn,  en  route  to  California,  where  he  aided  in  the 
organization  of  the  free  State  of  California.  Since  1850  he  has 
resided  at  Rock  Island,  Illinois.  In  politics  he  has  ever  been  a 
Whig  and  Repuplican,  voting  for  Gen.  Wm.  H.  Harrison  in 
Cherry  Valley,  New  York,  in  1836;  again  at  same  place  in  1840; 
for  Lincoln  in  1860,  and  for  Harrison  in  1888.  He  served  through 
the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  and  is  now  a  Past  Post  Commander  of 
Bedford  Post,  243,  G.  A.  R.  Mr.  Brackett  was  secretary  of  the 
Cherry  Valley  Tippecanoe  Club  in  1840,  and  has  in  his  possession 
the  records  thereof.  We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  Brackett  for  the 
copy  of  congratulatory  address  sent  to  Gen.  Wm.  H.  Harrison 
by  the  Cherry  Valley  Club,  November  I2th,  1840,  which  appears 
elsewhere. 


WILLIAM   HENRY  BRADLEY. 

William  Henry  Bradley  was  born  in  Ridgefield,  Fairfield 
county,  Connecticut,  November  29,  1816.  His  grandfather,  Philip 
Burr  Bradley,  was  also  a  native  of  Ridgefield,  a  lawyer  by  pro- 
fession, and  a  graduate  of  Yale.  During  the  war  of  the  Revolu- 
tion he  was  a  colonel  in  active  service,  and  his  commission  is  still 
preserved.  He  was  a  warm  and  trusted  friend  of  Washington, 
and  was  appointed  by  him,  when  president,  Marshal  for  the 
District  of  Connecticut,  an  appointment  renewed  in  Washing- 
ton's second  term,  and  also  under  President  Adams.  His  son, 
and  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Jesse  Smith  Bradley, 
was  also  a  graduate  of  Yale,  and  highly  esteemed  as  a  classical 
scholar.  He  was  elected  by  the  legislature  one  of  the  Judges  of 
Fairfield  county,  an  office  which  he  retained  until  his  death,  in 
May,  1833.  His  wife,  Elizabeth  Baker,  was  also  a  native  of 
Ridgefield,  the  daughter  of  a  physician  of  note — Dr.  Amos 
Baker.  The  fifth  son  of  these  parents,  William  Henry  Bradley, 
pursued  his  studies  at  home  in  Ridgefield  Academy,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  father's  death  was  prepared  to  enter  Yale  College. 
Soon  after  that  event  he  went  to  New  Haven,  and  was  employed 
as  teller  in  the  City  Bank.  At  the  end  of  four  years,  in  the  fall 
of  1837,  ne  removed,  at  the  suggestion  of  an  elder  brother,  to 


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Galena,  111.,  then  the  most  considerable  town  of  the  northwest. 
There  he  was  offered  the  position  of  Clerk  of  the  County  Court. 
He  accepted  the  appointment,  and  thus  decided  his  future — for 
since  that  time  he  has  been  almost  constantly  connected  with 
courts  in  a  clerical  capacity.  In  1840,  while  discharging  the  du- 
ties of  his  position,  and  studying  law  in  the  office  of  Hon. 
Thomas  Drummond,  then  a  prominent  lawyer  in  Galena,  he  was 
appointed  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Jo  Daviess  county.  On 
the  adoption  of  the  new  constitution  of  Illinois,  in  1848,  he  was 
elected  to  the  same  office,  and  again  re-elected  in  1852.  The 
large  majorities  by  which  he  was  successively  elected,  notwith- 
standing the  intensity  of  partisan  feeling  occasioned  by  a  presi- 
dential campaign,  and  the  nearly  equal  political  division  of  the 
county  between  the  two  parties,  and  his  active  identification  with 
one  of  them,  sufficiently  attest  the  public  appreciation  of  him  as 
a  man  and  a  faithful  and  efficient  officer. 

In  politics  Mr.  Bradley  was  early  identified  with  the  Whig 
party.  He  entered  actively  in  the  presidential  campaign  of  1840, 
preparing  occasional  papers  which  were  read  before  the  Jo 
Daviess  County  Tippecanoe  Club,  some  of  which  were  printed 
in  the  Galena  Gazette  of  that  year.  On  the  formation  of  the  Re- 
publican party  in  1860  he  heartily  endorsed  its  principles,  and 
was  at  the  Decatur  convention  of  that  year,  which  witnessed  the 
exciting  triangular  contest  for  the  gubernatorial  nomination  be- 
tween the  friends  of  Messrs.  Swett,  Judd  and  Yates,  finally 
resulting  in  the  nomination  of  Richard  Yates.  Mr.  Lincoln  was 
first  prominently  named  for  the  presidency  with  great  enthusiasm 
in  that  convention. 

Mr.  Bradley  has  been  a  consistent,  uniform  and  earnest  sup- 
porter of  the  Whig  and  Republican  parties,  and  of  their  candi- 
dates from  1838  to,  and  including  the  recent  triumphant  presi- 
dential canvass  of  1888.  When  congress  created  a  Second 
Judicial  District  in  Illinois,  the  Hon.  Thomas  Drummond,  then 
Judge  of  the  United  States  District  Court  for  Illinois,  having 
been  assigned  to  the  Northern  District,  with  the  concurrence  of 
Justice  McLean,  called  Mr.  Bradley  to  be  clerk  of  the  new 
courts.  He  accepted,  and  resigning  his  clerkship  at  Galena,  re- 


WILLIAM  HENRY  BRADLEY. 


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moved  to  Chicago,  and  entered  upon  his  duties  March  22,  1855. 
He  was,  upon  the  usual  examination,  admitted  to  the  bar,  but 
has  never  been  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 
For  about  thirty-four  years  he  has  performed  the  duties  of  his 
position  as  clerk  with  quiet  and  unfailing  industry  and  exem- 
plary fidelity,  winning  in  this,  as  in  other  previous  connections 
with  the  courts,  a  rare  and  honorable  measure  of  respect  and 
trust  for  readiness  and  accuracy,  as  well  as  efficiency  and  skill  in 
discharging  the  large  and  increasing  business  that  has  employed 
his  energies  and  occupied  his  time.  Still  he  has  never  been  in- 
different to  other  public  interests,  having  taken  an  active  part  in 
the  Young  Men's  Association  of  Chicago,  and  being  elected  its 
president  in  1860.  Of  the  West  Side  Railway  Company  he  was 
a  director  for  twenty-five  years;  was  vice-president  several  years, 
and  president  for  six  years,  which  last  position  he  resigned  in 
1875,  owing  to  the  laborious  and  exacting  duties  incident  to  the 
position. 

In  June,  A.  D.,  1871,  he  was  appointed,  under  the  will  of  the 
late  Walter  L.  Newberry  (deceased),  one  of  the  trustees  of  said 
estate,  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the  resignation  of  the 
Hon.  Mark  Skinner,  and  with  his  associate,  E.  W.  Blatchford,  Esq., 
continues  to  discharge  the  duties  of  that  trust. 


WILLIAM    BRACE. 

This  gentleman  is  a  living  exponent  of  the  principles  in- 
volved in  the  old-time  axiom  "  a  rolling  stone  gathers  no  moss." 
He  was  born  January  I7th,  1814,  in  the  town  of  Victor,  Ontario 
county,  New  York  State.  He  resided  there,  pursuing  the  even 
tenor  of  his  way  for  "  nigh  on  to  sixty  years,"  when  Chicago  be- 
came his  home.  He  voted  for  the  Harrison's  in  1836 — '40 — '88. 


JONATHAN  W.  BROOKS,  M.  D.f 

Was  born  of  parents  of  Waldense  Welch  and  Hugenot  descent 
in  that  part  of  Norwich,  New  London  county,  Connecticut,  now 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  8l 

known  as  Hanover,  November  3rd,  1811.  Spent  his  youth,  till 
sixteen  years  of  age,  at  work  on  his  fathers  farm;  aided  himself 
to  a  classical  education  in  Connecticut.  Was  first  a  pupil  in 
medicine,  of  the  late  Willard  S.  Parker,  of  New  York,  after  that 
of  the  late  William  P.  Dewes,  George  and  Samuel  McClellan  and 
John  Revere,  of  Philadelphia,  Pa., — graduating  from  the  Jefferson 
Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  under  the  presidency  of  Dr.  Ash- 
bel  Green,  then  of  Nassau  Hall  (now  Princeton),  March  4th.  A. 
D.,  1835,  entering  immediately  upon  the  active  practice  of 
medicine,  in  the  then  village  of  Brooklyn  (now  city),  of  New 
York.  Voted  for  General  William  Henry  Harrison  there  in  1836. 
In  1837  removed  to  Norwich  Town,  Connecticut,  and  succeeded 
to  the  business  of  Drs.  Philerson  Tracy  and  John  Turner,  who 
deceased  about  that  time.  Voted  in  Norwich  for  General  Harri- 
son again  in  1840  for  President.  Remained  in  Norwich  sixteen 
years — was  then  invited  to  College  Hill,  Hamilton  county,  Ohio, 
to  succeed  the  lamented  M.  M.  Williams,  M.  D.,  where  he  re- 
mained actively  engaged  until  1861,  when  by  invitation  of  Dr. 
Boone  and  others,  he  removed  to  Chicago,  settling  on  Adams 
street,  near  the  lake,  and  has  continued  in  the  active  practice 
of  his  profession  to  this  writing,  February  22d,  1889,  voting  for 
General  Benjamin  Harrison,  in  November  1888,  the  grandson  of 
General  William  Henry  Harrison. 


ISAAC  W.   BRAYTON, 

Born  March  9,  1811,  in  the  town  of  Chesine,  Berkshire  county, 
Mass.;  moved  to  Albany,  State  of  New  York,  1816;  used  logs  to 
help  build  log  cabin  at  Albany  in  1840;  voted  for  William  Henry 
Harrison  in  1836,  also  1840;  also  for  Benjamin  Harrison  in  1888, 
and  is  now  in  the  seventy-ninth  year  of  his  age. 


GEORGE  S.  BRISTOL. 

Born  September  3,  1821,  in  Lima,  Livingston  county,  State  of 
New  York;  came  to  western  Michigan  in  1836,  following  milling 
and  merchandising  for  twenty  years;  served  five  years  as  Deputy 


82  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

U.  S.  Marshal  in  Western  Michigan;  was  commissioned  by  Gov. 
Blair,  February,  1862,  as  First-Lieutenant  and  Regimental  Quar- 
termaster of  the  Twelfth  Michigan  Infantry;  participated  in  the 
battle  of  Pittsburg  Landing  on  the  6th  and  7th  of  April,  1862, 
lost  my  health  and  was  obliged  to  return  home  the  last  of  June, 
and  then  served  as  Marshal  until  the  close  of  the  war;  has  re- 
sided in  Chicago  the  last  seventeen  years. 


PHILLIP   BURROUGHS 

Was  born  in  the  town  of  Warrick,  Orange  county,  N.  Y.,  24th  of 
January,  1811.  Mr.  Burroughs  and  his  father  were  both  born  in 
the  same  house,  which  was  built  by  the  grandfather  prior  to  the 
Revolutionary  War,  when  his  parents  located  in  Orange  county, 
and  the  nearest  store  was  twenty-five  miles  distant,  nor  was 
there  "  highway,"  "  by-way  "  or  "  turnpike,"  other  than  a  bridle- 
path. 

Washington's  headquarters  were  located  but  twenty-two  miles 
distant.  The  father  of  Mr.  Burroughs  frequently  saw  General 
Washington  pass  to  and  fro.  Mr.  Burroughs  voted  for  General 
William  Henry  Harrison  in  1836  in  New  York  City,  but  lost  his 
vote  in  1840,  which  year  he  came  west,  locating  in  Chicago,  where 
he  has  ever  since  resided,  casting  his  vote,  with  the  rest  of  the 
Tippecanoe  Club,  for  Gen.  Benj.  Harrison,  and  from  that  time  up 
to  the  present  working  hard  and  earnestly  for  the  best  interests 
of  "  our  club." 


THOMAS  B.  CARTER 

Was  born  in  Norristown,  Norris  county,  N.  J.,  March  26th,  1819. 
His  first  recollection  of  a  political  campaign  or  election  was  con- 
nected with  John  Quincy  Adams'  unsuccessful  canvass  in  1828, 
when  his  father  cast  his  first  vote  for  that  candidate.  Mr.  Carter 
commenced  his  business  career  in  a  general  store  in  Morristown, 
N.  J.,  in  the  fall  of  1832,  from  whence  he  came  to  Chicago  in  1838 
with  a  stock  of  dry  goods  and  groceries,  reaching  here  the  fif- 
teenth of  September,  the  journey  requiring  twelve  days.  Before 


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84  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

leaving  Elizabethtown,  N.  J.,  the  firm  of  F.  B.  Carter  &  Co.,  was 
organized,  and  continued  in  busines  on  their  arrival  until  1861. 
In  the  fall  of  1861  he  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  Superior  Court  of 
Chicago,  which  office  he  held  for  six  years,  afterwards  serving  as 
one  of  the  general  agents  of  the  Equitable  Life  Insurance  Asso- 
ciation. In  1840  he  cast  his  first  vote  for  Gen.  William  Henry 
Harrison,  taking  an  active  part  in  the  campaign  and  attending 
the  big  Whig  convention  at  Springfield,  on  behalf  of  the  election, 
fulfilling  his  duty  in  every  respect  except  the  "drinking  of  hard 
cider."  Mr.  Carter  closes  his  sketch  by  saying:  "  I  shall  probably 
never  cast  another  vote,  but  should  my  life  be  spared  another 
four  years,  I  shall  vote  for  the  candidate  of  the  honest  old  Repub- 
lican party." 


COL.   EDWARD  H.  CASTLE. 

I,  Edward  H.  Castle,  was  born  in  Amenia,  Dutchess  county, 
N.  Y.,  August  5th,  1811.  My  grandfather,  Gideon  Castle,  served 
under  General  Washington  in  the  Revolutionary  War;  my  father, 
Wm.  Castle,  was  a  Dutchess  county  farmer.  In  the  winter  of 
1838  I  purchased  a  stock  of  merchandise  in  Philadelphia,  trans- 
porting it  over  the  Allegheny  mountains  with  the  old  style  six 
and  eight  horse  teams.  Reaching  Pittsburg,  on  the  Ohio  River, 
I  chartered  a  small  steamer,  and  completing  my  stock  with  the 
great  staple  produce  of  that  then  thriving  town — nails  and  hard- 
ware— proceeded  down  the  Ohio  River  to  its  mouth,  over  1,200 
miles,  thence  up  the  Mississippi  to  the  Illinois  River,  and  up  the 
Illinois  to  Peru,  Illinois.  Stopping  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  I  again 
made  additions  to  my  stock.  After  opening  my  store  at  Peru,  I 
went  to  Joliet,  111.,  where  I  established  another  store  in  what  was 
then  the  "  Old  Stone  Store,"  belonging  to  Dick  Wilson,  editor  of 
the  Chicago  Journal.  I  also  engaged  with  Gov.  Matteson  and 
Hiram  Blanchard  in  the  construction  of  the  Illinois  and  Michi- 
gan canal.  After  remaining  in  business  a  year,  I  sold  my  interest 
in  the  Peru  and  Joliet  stores,  and  left  for  Chicago,  arriving  there 
on  the  first  day  of  May,  1839,  where  I  immediately  opened  a 
stock  of  general  merchandise,  and  also  engaged  in  commercial 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  85 

purchasing,  shipping  by  boat  and  canal  to  New  York  ("  The  Old 
Settlers'  History"  gives  me  the  credit  of  shipping  the  first  one 
hundred  thousand  bushels  of  wheat  from  Chicago  to  New  York), 
at  the  same  time  buying  and  selling  real  estate  for  six  or  eight 
years.  In  1840  or  '41,  I  entered  six  thousand  acres  of  swamp 
land,  in  the  Illinois  valley,  at  ten  cents  per  acre,  a  portion  of 
which  I  sold  for  fifty  dollars  per  acre.  Entering  a  section  at  the 
town  of  Wheeling,  Cook  county,  I  engaged  in  farming,  and 
established  a  fine  dairy  of  fifty  cows,  finding  a  ready  sale  for  all 
the  milk  at  the  hotels  and  private  residences  of  Chicago.  During 
this  time,  still  dealing  in  real  estate  up  to  '47,  I  assisted  in  the 
construction  of  the  first  railroads  to  the  city.  I  voted  for  Wil- 
liam Henry  Harrison  for  president  in  1840,  as  in  1888  I  voted  for 
Benjamin  Harrison  for  that  high  office. 

Starting  for  the  California  gold  fields  in  November,  1849,  I 
took  passage  on  the  canal  packet,  Capt.  Connett,  by  Illinois 
canal  to  Peru;  steamer  Atlantic,  by  Illinois  river,  to  St.  Louis; 
steamer  James  Hewitt,  by  Mississippi  river,  to  New  Orleans; 
there  taking  the  mate's  position  on  the  bark  Florida  to  Chagres; 
then  crossing  the  Isthmus  by  walking  over  the  mountain,  after 
being  transported  up  the  Chagres  river  forty  miles  in  a  pearug, 
poled  by  the  natives,  clothed  in  the  garb  that  nature  gave  them, 
the  climate  requiring  no  more  expensive  apparel.  A  pearug  is  a 
mahogany  tree  dug-out,  about  four  feet  wide  and  twelve  feet 
long,  and  will  carry  twelve  persons  and  baggage.  After  leaving 
the  river,  we  reached  Panama  in  two  days,  with  blistered  feet 
and  tired  out.  Here  I  was  offered  one  of  the  Aspinwall  steamers 
to  take  to  San  Francisco.  Taking  command  of  the  ship  Unicorn, 
a  four-decker,  three  hundred  feet  long,  drawing  twenty-eight 
feet  of  water,  we  sailed  for  Toboga  island.  After  cleaning,  paint- 
ing, watering  and  coaling,  we  returned  to  Panama,  and,  provision- 
ing her  for  the  voyage  to  San  Francisco,  took  on  board  seven 
hundred  passengers  and  their  baggage,  which,  with  the  crew  and 
others,  made  nearly  one  thousand  persons  on  board.  Going 
ashore  for  my  passport,  I  met  Commodore  Porter,  who  had  just 
arrived,  being  in  command  of  the  Pacific  Department,  and  in- 
vited him  to  make  the  trip  with  us  and  relieve  me  of  a  part  of 


86  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

the  responsibility,  which  he  consented  to  do.  Sailing  on  the  28th 
day  of  November,  on  a  voyage  of  over  4,000  miles,  we  stopped 
at  the  fine  harbor  of  Acapulco,  one  of  the  state  capitals,  on  the 
west  coast  of  Mexico,  where  we  took  a  ship  load  of  coal  and  two 
hundred  head  of  fat  cattle,  for  the  purpose  of  supplying  fresh 
meat,  and,  purchasing  all  the  vegetables  we  could  obtain  in  that 
market,  and  a  fresh  supply  of  provisions  and  water,  again  put  to 
sea — nothing  occurring  to  disturb  the  usual  monotony  of  a  sea 
voyage.  The  weather  being  fine  and  the  evenings  warm  and 
pleasant,  they  were  passed  in  dancing  and  other  social  amuse- 
ments, and  we  arrived  at  the  mud  and  cloth  town  of  San  Fran- 
cisco on  the  5th  day  of  January,  1850. 

The  Unicorn  being  laid  up  and  used  as  a  store  ship,  I  took 
command  of  the  new  steamer,  Eldorado,  which  had  been  brought 
in  sections  as  freight  from  Philadelphia,  and  designed  for  the 
river  trade  between  San  Francisco  and  Sacramento,  making  three 
trips  weekly  between  these  two  points  (it  being  about  the  same 
distance  as  from  New  York  to  Albany,  and  the  scenery  very  fine 
and  quite  as  interesting).  By  purchasing  goods  at  auction  at 
San  Francisco  and  transporting  them  to  Sacramento,  where  they 
were  disposed  of  at  auction,  I  was  enabled  to  add  considerable 
to  my  store  of  wealth.  After  being  several  weeks  thus  engaged 
I  left  the  water  and  rented  a  hotel  at  Clark's  Point,  San  Fran- 
cisco, christening  it  the  Illinois  House.  Help  being  scarce  and 
high,  I  purchased  a  half  dozen  girls,  that  were  sold  for  their 
passage  on  a  British  ship  from  Sidney,  as  dining-room  waiters. 
In  those  days  there  was  no  scarcity  of  patronage.  John  H.  Col- 
lins, having  just  completed  the  building  of  the  first  and  only 
warehouse  in  that  port,  furnished  a  spacious  apartment  with  ele- 
gance, comfort  and  attractiveness,  as  a  rendezvous  or  headquar- 
ters for  the  large  number  of  officers  always  found  at  this  port, 
engaged  me  to  take  charge  of  the  same.  By  keeping  a  man 
stationed  on  Telegraph  Hill,  with  a  good  glass,  to  notify  me  of 
any  ship  in  sight,  and  furnishing  me  a  man  and  boat,  I  was  en- 
abled to  be  the  first  man  aboard,  and  never  failed  to  purchase  or 
get  consignment  of  the  cargo,  taking  the  passengers  to  the  Illi- 
nois House,  of  course.  During  the  year's  engagement  I  boarded 


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88  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

over  four  hundred  vessels,  and  had  the  reputation  of  being  the 
most  successful  manager  of  both  hotel  and  warehouse  to  be 
found. 

On  account  of  failing  health,  I  closed  up  my  business,  and  in 
the  fall  of  1851  left  on  the  steamer  Columbus  for  Panama.  My 
health  having  somewhat  improved,  I  continued  my  journey, 
crossing  the  mountains  from  the  latter  place  on  that  ever  faithful 
animal,  the  mule.  Shipped  on  the  steamer  Falcon  to  the  mouth 
of  the  Chagres  River,  for  Cuba,  there  being  transferred  to  the 
steamer  Ohio,  for  New  York;  we  lost  thirty-seven  passengers  on 
the  voyage  from  cholera. 

Arriving  at  New  York,  I  met  my  wife  and  little  daughter,  all 
rejoicing  that  the  home  circle  was  complete.  While  here  I  re- 
ceived the  appointment,  from  Chas.  Minot,  Superintendent  of 
the  Erie  Railroad,  as  General  Freight  and  Passenger  Agent  of 
that  road  for  the  entire  northwest,  with  headquarters  at  Chicago. 
Emigration  pouring  into  the  new  country  very  fast,  I  established 
a  line  of  steamers  between  Chicago  and  Dunkirk,  securing  a 
large  amount  of  new  traffic  for  the  road,  and  soon  received  the 
appointment  as  General  Agent  for  the  entire  Mississippi  valley, 
with  a  salary  accordingly. 

In  the  fall  of  1858-9  I  secured  the  passage  of  a  charter 
through  the  Missouri  legislature  for  a  line  of  railroad  through 
the  northern  tier  of  counties  of  that  state — from  Canton  to  the 
mouth  of  the  Platte,  on  the  Missouri  river,  two  hundred  miles. 
The  charter  provided  for  a  stock  subscription  by  these  counties, 
in  a  corporative  capacity,  to  the  amount  of  $500,000.  Taking 
the  contract  to  build  and  equip  said  road  for  $7,000,000,  and  re- 
ceiving the  stock  in  part  payment,  I  was  to  control  the  first 
mortgage  bonds,  and  retain  possession  of  the  road  until  the  bal- 
ance was  paid.  Lecturing  through  these  counties,  I  very  soon 
succeeded  in  securing  a  subscription  of  double  the  amount  of 
stock  required,  from  counties  and  individual  subscriptions  of 
farmers. 

When  the  Rebellion  broke  out,  in  1861,  having  the  road 
about  half  built,  my  operations  were  very  speedily  interfered 
with,  the  rebel  Gen.  Green  taking  possession  of  my  stores,  stock, 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  89 

location,  iron  and  cars,  amounting  to  some  $2,000,000.  Enlisting 
my  men  in  the  service  of  Uncle  Sam,  I  chartered  a  steamer,  and 
taking  them  to  St.  Louis,  reported  to  Maj.-Gen.  Fremont,  re- 
ceiving the  appointment  of  Colonel  on  his  staff  and  Superinten- 
dent of  Railroads  for  the  Western  Department — comprising 
twenty-seven  roads — with  headquarters  at  St.  Louis.  I  very  soon 
connected  the  different  lines  of  railroad  in  St.  Louis,  and  with 
4,000  men  I  was  kept  very  busy  repairing  the  roads  and  bridges 
as  fast  as  they  were  interfered  with  or  destroyed  by  the  rebels. 
I  was  instructed  by  the  War  Department  to  get  up  a  scale  of 
rates  to  be  used  as  a  standard  in  transporting  all  government 
stores,  which,  when  completed,  was  immediately  indorsed  by  all 
the  proper  officers  of  the  government,  and  became  a  law  for  the 
government  business  of  the  United  States,  as  the  "  Castle  rates," 
during  the  rebellion. 

Being  transferred  to  the  Mountain  Department,  with  General 
Fremont,  I  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  Pontoon  brigade  with 
the  army  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  where  I  was  kept  busy  until 
after  Sheridan's  raid  up  the  valley,  when  I  was  ordered  to  Wash- 
ington to  do  some  special  service  for  President  Lincoln.  After 
the  surrender  of  Vicksburg,  I  was  detailed  to  supply  Gen. 
Grant's  army  with  ice.  Chartering  four  steamers  and  twenty- 
nine  barges,  I  ascended  the  Mississippi  River  1,500  miles,  to 
Lake  Pepin,  where  I  purchased  28,000  tons  of  ice,  transporting 
it  to  the  army  at  Vicksburg,  where,  on  my  arrival  with  the  ice 
cargo,  the  boys  in  blue  illuminated  the  town.  President  Lincoln 
and  Gov.  Chase  desired  me  to  proceed  to  New  Orleans,  to  advise 
with  Gen.  Banks  in  regard  to  the  Red  River  expedition,  but  my 
suggestions  not  meeting  with  favor*  from  Gen.  Banks,  I  soon  re- 
turned to  Washington,  and  after  the  surrender  of  Richmond  by 
Lee,  I  returned  home.  Both  houses  of  Congress  joined  in  pay- 
ing me  a  vote  of  thanks,  and  President  Lincoln  gave  me  the 
appointment  of  Chief  Engineer  to  build  the  Pacific  Railroad, 
which  was  a  great  surprise,  as  I  had  never  asked  for  any  appoint- 
ment during  my  service  with  the  army. 

I  gladly  returned  home,  but  before  reaching  New  York  the 
Lord  was  pleased  to  cause  me  to  think  how  many  a  good  man  I 


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had  left  in  a  soldier's  grave,  much  better  than  myself.  Arriving 
at  New  York,  I  stopped  at  the  Astor  House,  and  on  Sunday 
went  to  hear  Henry  Ward  Beecher  preach.  Being  convinced  of 
my  sins,  and  feeling  the  need  of  a  Saviour,  I  commenced  to  ask 
the  Lord  Jesus  to  forgive  my  sins  and  grant  me  His  pardoning 
love  in  my  heart.  I  left  immediately  for  home,  praying  every 
breath  for  peace  to  my  soul.  After  arriving  at  home,  and  pray- 
ing many  days,  and,  with  my  good  wife,  reading  God's  promises 
to  poor  sinners,  the  Lord  was  pleased  to  show  me  a  bright  light, 
and  great  peace  came  to  my  soul,  and  joy  came  to  my  heart. 
Praise  God!  I  went  from  house  to  house  for  three  years,  telling 
my  neighbors  of  Christ's  precious  love  to  my  heart,  and  I  feel 
Christ  precious,  and  his  great  love  has  attended  me.  Praise  the 
Lord!  the  fear  of  death  has  been  taken  away,  and  he  is  still  will- 
ing to  hear  my  poor  prayers.  Oh!  that  I  could  tell  all  my 
acquaintances  what  great  things  the  Lord  has  done  for  me,  and 
is  willing  to  do  for  all  those  that  ask,  believing  on  Him 

When  General  Grant  captured  Vicksburg,  he  telegraphed 
Captain  David  White,  of  Cincinnati,  and  Colonel  E.  H.  Castle,  of 
Chicago,  to  report  forthwith  to  him  at  Vicksburg,  and  we  hap- 
pened to  meet  on  the  same  train  before  arriving  at  Vicksburg, 
where  we  reported  within  forty-eight  hours.  Upon  meeting  Gen. 
Grant  he  informed  us  that  the  wounded  and  sick  were  suffering 
and  dying,  and  commissioned  us  and  ordered  us  to  proceed 
forthwith  to  furnish  the  army  with  ice  for  the  use  of  the  hospi- 
tals; and  within  six  hours  we  had  chartered  four  steamboats  and 
twenty-nine  barges  and  shipped  one  hundred  men,  and  com- 
menced receiving  fuel  and  stores  for  a  trip  of  fifteen  hundred 
miles  to  Lake  Pepin,  and  by  sun-up  the  next  morning  we  had  the 
barges  shipped  to  the  steamers  and  bid  General  Grant  good-bye; 
Colonel  Castle  taking  charge  of  the  leading  steamer — Captain 
White  following — stopping  only  on  account  of  darkness  and  to 
obtain  pilots,  arriving  at  Lake  Pepin  in  seven  days,  and  within 
four  hours  purchased  twenty -eight  thousand  tons  of  ice — start- 
ing immediately  thirty  or  forty  wagons  into  the  adjacent  country 
for  straw  to  pack  the  ice.  Within  three  days  we  had  seven  bar- 
ges and  one  steamer  loaded,  and  Col.  Castle  left  for  Vicksburg, 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  9 1 

telegraphing  General  Grant  he  was  "  Making  Vicksburg  as  fast 
as  the  weather  and  circumstances  would  admit,"  arriving  in 
Vicksburg  inside  of  ten  days — General  Grant  meeting  him  in 
tears,  and  the  boys  in  blue  illuminating  the  town,  and  there  was 
a  general  rejoicing.  General  Grant  and  Captain  David  White 
soon  after  followed  our  fathers  and  hosts  of  soldiers  and  officers 
in  the  sleep  that  has  no  end,  where  the  battles  are  over  and  peace 
reigns  triumphant.  I  am  left  behind;  ninety-nine  per  cent  of  my 
comrades  are  at  rest. 

And  now,  after  reaching  nearly  four  score  years,  enjoying  the 
blessing  of  a  comfortable  and  pleasant  home,  as  my  life's  journey 
nears  the  end,  and  memory  turns  back  the  leaves  in  the  book  of 
time,  it  seems  like  a  dream  or  panorama,  and  after  wondering,  I 
can  only  give  praise  to  that  Supreme  Ruler  who  watches  and 
guides  our  every  footstep.  Thankful  from  my  inmost  soul  for 
His  many  mercies  vouchsafed  to  me,  and  the  loving  care  of  our 
beloved  Saviour,  I  pray  daily  that  I  may  be  able  in  some  manner 
to  become  worthy  of  that  love,  and  in  my  humble  way  aid  others 
to  know  that  love  and  enjoy  its  .blessing.  Having  been  a  mem- 
ber of  Park  Avenue  M.  E.  church  for  many  years,  I  only  wish 
that  I  could  tell  to  one  and  all  of  my  youthful  associates  the 
comfort  and  enjoyment  it  has  been  to  me — the  peace  and  quiet 
after  the  turbulent  and  exciting  life  of  my  younger  days,  taking 
the  fear  of  death  from  me. 


STEPHEN  HENRY  CLEMENT 

Was  born  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  September  15,  1823,  the  seventh 
child  of  Joseph  Warren  Clement  and  Mary  Fitz  Clement.  His 
ancestors  came  early  from  England.  Moses  Clement  landed  at 
Plymouth  Rock,  Mass.,  in  1628,  and  settled  in  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, then  a  colony  of  Great  Britain,  and  in  1652  he  was 
appointed  Privy  Councellor  to  Governor  Winthrop.  A  few 
years  later,  other  members  of  his  family  came  (also)  to  America. 
Among  these  were  Robert  Fawne  Clement  (who  arrived  in  1632), 
and  Job  Clement  (who  came  in  1638),  the  latter  of  whom  became 
a  resident  of  Haverhill,  Mass.  It  was  here  that  Job  received 


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from  the  provincial  government,  a  grant  of  land  as  a  premium 
for  building  and  operating  the  first  tannery  in  the  province  of 
Massachusetts. 

At  that  early  period  the  ancestors  of  Stephen  H.  appear  to 
have  been  prominent  in  the  history  of  the  commonwealth.  Sev- 
eral of  them  held  important  positions,  both  in  the  colonies  and 
after  they  had  become  independent  States.  Joseph  Warren  Cle- 
ment (father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch)  was,  by  profession,  an 
architect  and  builder,  and  carried  on  his  business  at  Newbury- 
port,  Mass.  On  the  8th  of  November,  1807,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Mary  Fitz,  to  them  were  born  six  boys  and  five  girls.  Mary 
Fitz  Clement  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Robert  Fitz,  Esq.,  who 
immigrated  from  "  Fitzford,"  England,  to  Virginia  in  1614,  where 
he  owned  and  cultivated  a  tobacco  plantation.  In  tracing  the 
genealogy  of  the  Fitz  family,  it  is  noticeable  that  Daniel  Web- 
ster, of  New  Hampshire,  the  celebrated  orator  and  statesman, 
and  Stephen  H.  Clement,  were  cousins. 

About  the  year  1835,  Joseph  Warren  Clement,  accompanied 
by  his  son  Charles,  came  to  Alton,  111.,  and  engaged  as  contrac- 
tor in  the  construction  of  many  houses  and  stores,  and  while 
there  became  an  unwilling  witness  to  the  murder  of  Elijah  Love- 
joy,  in  1837,  and  the  destruction  of  his  printing  office  by  riotous 
slave-holders  and  border  ruffians  from  Missouri.  These  incidents, 
so  disgraceful  and  barbarous,  soon  caused  the  senior  Clement  to 
return  to  his  home  in  Massachusetts,  where  he  often  related  the 
story  of  the  Alton  outrages  to  his  eagerly  listening  boys.  Hence- 
forth he  became  imbued  with  the  spirit  of  Abolition;  and  the 
perusal  of  the  Boston  Emancipator,  and  other  kindred  journals,  did 
much  to  inspire  his  children  with  an  intense  ardor  for  political 
liberty  and  the  personal  freedom  of  the  slave. 

In  1838  Stephen  H.  entered  upon  his  apprenticeship  in  the 
watch-making  and  repairing  business  at  82  Washington  street, 
Boston;  and  in  1842  he  began  his  journey  to  the  West,  to  "grow 
up  with  the  country."  By  stage,  railway,  canal  and  steamboat 
he  reached  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  There  he  secured  a  passage  up  the 
great  lakes  on  the  steamer  "  Great  Western,"  commanded  by 
Captain  Walker — both  the  boat  and  her  commander  being  then 


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94  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

the  best  and  most  popular  afloat — and  after  a  few  days  he  landed 
at  the  village  of  Southport  (now  the  city  of  Kenosha),  in  the 
Territory  of  Wisconsin.  Here  he  opened  a  watch  and  jewelry 
store,  and  prospered  in  his  business. 

It  was  while  thus  engaged,  owing  to  the  aggressions  of  the 
Southern  slave-holders  and  the  supineness  of  the  Northern 
"  dough-faces,"  that  he  was  led  to  manifest  much  interest  in 
Abolition  and  Free  Soil  discussions,  and  when  the  Republican 
party  was  formed  he  became  a  "  stalwart "  among  them,  and  was 
ever  afterwards  within  the  picket-lines  of  that  political  organiza- 
tion, to  which,  in  the  meantime,  all  his  relatives  by  blood  and 
marriage,  including  his  five  sons,  have  belonged. 

While  he  lived  at  Southport  it  is  worthy  of  note  that  Mr. 
Clement  erected  the  first  public  hall  in  that  place;  and  at  the 
dedication  of  it  to  liberty  and  equality  under  the  law,  the  event 
was  made  memorable  by  the  liberty-loving  citizens  in  a  glorious 
celebration.  Among  the  speakers  on  that  occasion  was  Colonel 
Charles  Clement,  who  soon  rose  to  distinction.  He  was  soon 
called  to  positions  of  responsibility  and  honor.  In  1848  he  was 
a  member  of  the  first  State  Constitutional  Convention  of  Wiscon- 
sin, and  afterwards  a  State  Senator  from  Racine  county,  besides 
holding  other  important  offices  in  the  gift  of  the  people  and  the 
government.  Under  such  gratifying  auspices  Clement's  Hall 
became  the  rallying  wigwam  of  the  liberty-loving  advocates  of 
our  Republican  institutions. 

After  several  years  Stephen  H.  found  that  his  close  attention 
to  business  was  injuring  his  health,  and  an  opportunity  soon  oc- 
curring, he  sold  his  establishment,  and  for  a  season  retired  from 
active  pursuits.  Rest  and  recreation  having  eventually  restored 
his  physical  energies,  he  removed  to  Beloit,  Rock  county,  Wis., 
and  there  again  engaged  in  the  jewelry  business. 

An  interesting  incident  added  its  zest  to  his  quiet  life  in  1855, 
when  he  was  happily  married  to  Miss  Rachel  Fullager,  of  Cats- 
kill,  N.  Y.  A  few  months  after  this  event,  his  brother  George, 
then  living  in  Texas,  made  him  a  visit,  and  so  highly  recom- 
mended the  climate  of  that  State  that  Stephen  H.  was  induced  to 
dispose  of  his  business  and  emigrate  to  that  southern  paradise. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  95 

There  he  invested  his  means  in  live-stock,  and  at  once  engaged 
in  the  business  with  such  energy  and  prudence  that  his  labors 
were  soon  crowned  with  complete  success,  as  his  large  droves  of 
horses  and  cattle,  and  flocks  of  sheep  on  the  hills  and  in  the  val- 
leys of  the  "  Lone  Star  State  "  sufficiently  attested. 

Every  picture  has  its  lights  and  shades,  and  every  life  its  vi- 
cissitudes. The  tide  of  prosperity  which  had  hitherto  borne  him 
upon  its  top  wave,  soon  began  to  turn  and  recede.  And  this  was 
when  the  first  distant  mutterings  of  the  Southern  Rebellion  and 
the  threatened  intestinal  disruption  of  the  American  Union  fell 
upon  his  ear.  The  weak  administrations  of  Pierce  and  Buchanan 
had  paved  the  way  for  southern  insolence  to  declare  itself  in 
favor  of  secession.  Buchanan's  easy  good  nature  had  furnished 
the  opportunity  for  Floyd,  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  and  Jef- 
ferson Davis,  the  whilom  Secretary  of  War,  to  attempt  the  dis- 
ruption of  the  country  by  bringing  the  conspiracy  of  the  slave- 
holders to  the  arbitrament  of  arms. 

The  "  Knights  of  the  Golden  Circle,"  all  over  this  fair  land, 
Nortn  and  South,  under  the  command  of  General  Bickley,  of 
Kentucky,  organized  bands  of  assassins,  and  robbery  and  murder 
became  rampart  throughout  the  South.  On  every  hand  South- 
ern conspirators  and  their  minions  continually  sought  out  North- 
ern men  who  had  settled  in  the  South.  If  these  were  possessed 
of  lands,  money  or  live-stock,  they  were  despoiled  of  all  they 
had,  and  in  many  instances  murder  was  added  to  the  crimes  com- 
mitted upon  those  Northern  residents  who  had  no  sympathy 
with  the  rebellious  spirit  that  brought  on  the  war  of  the  Rebel- 
lion. Every  sort  of  annoyance  and  outrage  characterized  the 
conduct  of  the  slavocracy  toward  the  Northern  men  in  the 
South  who  dared  to  cling  to  their  loyal  principles.  The  mails 
were  kept  under  constant  espoignage,  and  letters  and  packages 
by  mail  addressed  to  Northerners  were  broken  open  and  read,  in 
order  to  obtain  the  sentiments  of  the  writers  regarding  slavery 
and  the  Southern  policy,  with  a  view  of  persecuting  and  expell- 
ing (those  who  opposed)  them  from  the  South  at  any  sacrifice. 

At  that  time  Stephen  H.  Clement's  brother  Charles  was  pub- 
lishing the  Advocate,  and  subsequently  the  Journal,  at  Racine, 


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Wis.,  and  very  freely  expressing  his  sentiments  in  favor  of  sup- 
pressing slavery  and  Southern  methods — for  Charles  was  thor- 
oughly imbued  with  the  Republican,  Free  Soil,  Abolition  spirit, 
and  aggressive  in  everything  that  related  to  the  Southern  policy. 
Every  week  his  paper  was  mailed  to  his  brother  in  Texas,  and 
the  Southerners  were  not  long  in  finding  out  that  Stephen  H. 
was  no  friend  of  their  political  principles. 

Before  the  first  gun  had  been  fired  at  Fort  Sumpter,  the 
"Knights  of  the  Golden  Circle"  sent  notices  to  all  Northern  sym- 
pathizers to  leave  the  .South.  One  of  these  missives  reached 
Stephen  H.  on  the  6th  of  January,  1861,  giving  him  twelve  hours 
in  which  to  leave  the  State.  Not  heeding  their  threats,  he  made 
no  preparation  for  such  a  sudden  leave-taking  of  his  home  and 
family;  but,  soon  afterward,  another  similar  demand  came  from 
sixty  armed  men,  prepared  for  immediate  action.  Death  or 
flight  was  the  only  alternative.  By  the  advice  of  friends  he  was 
induced  to  accept  the  situation,  mount  his  horse,  turn  his  face 
northward,  and  leave  behind  him  wife  and  children,  and  all  that 
he  had  accumulated  during  years  of  industry.  Fortunately  he 
escaped  all  threatened  perils  on  his  way,  and  as  soon  as  possible 
gained  the  free  soil  of  Illinois,  where  the  stars  and  stripes  insured 
free  thought  and  speech  to  every  citizen. 

Not  long  after  his  arrival  he  entered  the  service  of  the  United 
States  government  as  enrolling  officer,  under  the  District  Provost 
Marshal.  Capt.  James,  who,  with  the  Hon.  Isaac  L.  Milliken  and 
Dr.  L.  C.  Paine  Freer,  constituted  the  United  States  Board  of  En- 
rollment, and  attended  faithfully  to  the  duties  of  his  position 
until  the  close  of  the  war. 

Since  the  war  ended,  Stephen  H.  has  traveled  extensively 
throughout  the  northern  and  extreme  southern  States,  including 
Old  and  New  Mexico;  and  at  the  present  writing  is  engaged  in 
the  wholesale  jewelry  business  in  Chicago.  With  his  early  train- 
ing and  predilections,  he  has  always  been  an  active  participant  in 
Republican  campaigns,  and  in  that  of  1888  was  an  earnest  and 
vigorous  speaker  in  behalf  of  Harrison  and  Morton. 

Well  acquainted  with  the  inside  working  of  the  Southern  pol- 
icy before  the  war,  Mr.  Clement  will  soon  embody  his  views  in  a 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  97 

brief  history  of  the  Slaveholder's  Rebellion,  including  numerous 
interesting  facts  not  yet  made  public.. 


HENRY  L.  CHAPIN 

Was  born  in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  March  7th,  1817.  He  espoused 
the  political  principles  of  the  Whig  party,  and  co-operated  with 
that  party  at  all  elections.  Voted  and  worked  for  the  election  of 
William  Henry  Harrison  in  1840.  When  the  Republican  party 
was  organized  he  sympathized  and  co-operated  with  it  and  always 
voted  for  its  candidate  on  every  election,  including  the  trium- 
phant election  of  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison,  on  the  6th  of  Novem- 
ber, 1888. 


ISAAC  COALE 

Was  born  about  four  miles  west  of  the  Junction  on  the  Susque- 
hanna  River,  August  I5th,  1803;  remaining  on  the  homestead 
until  1820,  when  he  went  to  Baltimore  and  obtained  employment 
there,  engaging  in  the  mercantile  business — afterwards  removing 
to  Boston  in  1825.  Mr.  Coale's  first  child  was  born  in  Boston, 
and  now  resides  in  Washington,  aged  sixty  years.  In  1836  and 
1840  Mr.  Coale  was  engaged  in  farming  in  Virginia,  and  voted  for 
William  Henry  Harrison.  In  1850  he  removed  to  New  York,  and 
subsequently  to  Chicago,  where  he  is  at  present  living,  and  where 
he  voted  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison  in  1888.  Mr.  Coale  was  the 
father  of  the  ist-Lieutenant,  one  John  H.  Coale,  who  was  well 
known  in  army  circles,  and  was  connected  with  Gen.  Custer's 
brigade,  and  who  recently  died  at  Ft.  Madison.  Although  retired 
from  active  business,  Mr.  Coale  is  still  an  active  republican,  and 
ready  at  all  times  to  vote  for  the  Republican  party,  to  whom  he 
has  ever  been  loyal. 

FRED.   W.  COFFIN 

Was  born  at  Boscamin,  State  of  New  Hampshire,  county  of  Mer- 
rimac,  May  28th,  1815,  where  he  resided  for  some  years,  subse- 
quently removing  to  Rockingham,  in  the  same  state.  Mr.  Coffin 


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came  to  Chicago  in  i860,  and  has  resided  here  ever  since.  He 
voted  for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison  in  1836  and  1840,  both 
votes  being  cast  at  the  place  of  his  nativity,  and  in  1888  he  voted 
in  Chicago  for  the  younger  Harrison. 


HENRY  CONVERSE 

Was  born  August  22d,  1815,  in  New  Brainton,  Worcester  county, 
Massachusetts,  and  was  one  of  six  boys.  Henry  was  the  third  son, 
and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  he  was  anxious  to  learn  some  trade,  so 
his  father  put  him  to  learn  the  tanning  trade,  where  he  remained 
one  year,  when  his  health  failed  him  so  he  had  to  leave  it,  and 
was  then  sent  to  school  for  two  years;  then  he  went  into  the 
office  of  Dr.  I.  N.  Bates,  of  Barise.  In  1836  he  concluded  to 
go  west,  where  he  arrived  at  Sandusky,  Ohio.  In  1840  he  took  a 
lively  interest  in  the  election  of  General  William  Henry  Harrison 
— was  one  of  the  committee  to  receive  and  escort  the  General  to 
Fort  Meigs  celebration.  The  General  remained  one  night  at  San- 
dusky,  and  the  following  morning  they  all  went  aboard  the 
Steamer  Sandusky,  and  before  they  started  a  fleet  of  six  steamers 
sailed  into  the  Sandusky  Bay.  When  they  reached  Toledo,  they  got 
Captain  Wilkinson  (who  sailed  the  Steamer  Commodore  Perry) 
to  pilot  the  fleet  up  the  Merrimac  river.  But  before  he  would 
start  he  said  he  must  have  the  General  in  his  boat.  Well,  as  long 
as  he  had  a  log  cabin  on  the  deck  of  his  boat,  it  was  decided  to 
put  the  General  aboard  of  his  boat.  They  reached  Perrysburg  safe, 
and  had  a  two  days'  celebration  at  Fort  Meigs  just  above  Perrys- 
burg. Was  appointed  Port  Master  by  General  Taylor;  held  it 
through  that  administration.  In  1877  moved  with  his  wife  to 
Chicago,  where  they  are  both  living.  They  are  now  on  their  fifty- 
third  year  that  they  have  lived  together, —  having  six  grand- 
children and  two  great-grand-children. 


ASAHEL  T.  CROSS 

Was  born  in  Freetown,  Cortland  county,  N.  Y.,  May  2ist,  1815. 
Resided  in  N.  Y.,  until  1883,  at  which  date  he  removed  to  Chicago 


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He  inherited  a  hatred  for  slavery  from  both  his  parents,  and 
recollects  that  in  the  year  1825  two  slave  boys  came  to  his 
father's  house,  and  were  by  him  fed  and  helped  to  Canada.  In 
1836  he  cast  his  first  vote  for  William  Henry  Harrison,  and  again 
in  1840  for  the  same  party,  being  so  thoroughly  disgusted  with 
John  Tyler  that  he  vowed  never  again  to  vote  for  a  slave-holder. 
In  1844  he  voted  for  James  G.  Binney;  in  '48  for  Martin  Van- 
Buren;  in  '52  for  John  P.  Hall;  in  '56  for  John  C.  Fremont.  Was 
active  in  the  Lincoln  campaign,  and  has  always  voted  for  the 
Republican  candidate,  casting  his  vote  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harri- 
son, in  whose  honesty  and  ability  he  has  entire  confidence. 


CAPT.  JOHN    DAME 

Was  born  in  the  town  of  Barnstead,  county  of  Strafford,  State  of 
New  Hampshire,  March  loth,  1799.  His  father  was  of  Welch 
descent.  His  education  was  obtained  around  the  family  altar,  in 
a  country  school  house,  and  the  church.  The  school  house  af- 
forded him  about  twelve  weeks  of  winter  schooling  in  a  year — his 
home  training  constituted  a  rigid  discipline  in  the  habits  of  hon- 
esty and  frugality.  Early  in  life  lessons  were  given  in  the  rudi- 
ments of  useful  and  productive  industry,  and  the  principles 
which  were  believed  to  be  essential  for  a  self-relying,  indepen- 
dent and  successful  manhood.  What  he  lacked  in  opportunities 
he  sought  to  make  up  by  diligence,  economy  and  perseverance. 
In  his  boyhood  there  was  a  premium  on  honest  and  efficient  la- 
bor, and  a  penalty  against  idleness  and  prodigality.  He  moved 
from  Barnstead,  N.  H.,  in  1843  to  Wisconsin,  and  settled  on  a 
farm  in  the  town  of  Spring  Prairie,  where  he  has  resided  forty- 
six  years.  He  cast  his  first  vote  in  1820  for  John  Q.  Adams  for 
president.  He  voted  in  1836-' 40  for  William  Henry  Harrison  for 
president,  and  in  1888  for  his  grandson,  Benjamin  Harrison,  for 
president.  At  all  other  elections  he  voted  the  Whig  ticket  until 
1856,  when  he  voted  the  Republican  ticket,  and  has  done  so  ever 
since.  He  has  participated  in  eighteen  presidential  elections,  and 
voted  in  them  all  except  two.  He  is  now  in  very  good  health, 
and  but  for  the  loss  of  his  sight  could  walk  several  miles  a  day 
with  little  trouble. 


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WASHINGTON    DEWEY 

Was  born  in  Middlebury,  Vt.,  on  the  loth  day  of  September, 
1818,  and  moved  to  Detroit,  Mich.,  in  1829.  This  trip  from  New 
York  State  to  Detroit  was  all  made  by  water  from  Northwest 
Bay,  on  Lake  Champlain,  to  Whitehall,  and  from  thence  by  canal 
to  Buffalo.  He  lived  in  Detroit  two  years,  and  then  moved  to 
Maiden,  Canada;  lived  there  one  year  and  went  to  Sandusky, 
Ohio,  in  1833,  where  he  made  his  home  until  he  came  to  Chicago 
in  March,  1869.  On  coming  through  Chicago  in  1839  he  landed 
at  the  light-house,  and  walked  up  to  Rush  street  on  planks  laid 
in  the  grass  along  the  river,  and  was  ferried  across  by  two  men 
in  a  scow  boat,  and  a  rope  stretched  across  the  river.  Chicago 
had  then  about  4,000  inhabitants.  He  and  a  brother  two  years 
his  senior  are  all  that  remain  of  twelve  children — seven  daugh- 
ters and  five  sons.  In  July,  1840,  he  went  to  Fort  Wayne,  Ind., 
by  stage,  and  from  there  to  Farmer's  Creek  on  horseback,  over 
four  hundred  miles,  but  got  back  to  Sandusky  in  time  to  vote 
for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison,  and  in  1888  rejoiced  to  be 
again  permitted  to  vote  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison. 


MADISON    DURLEY 

Was  born  on  the  5th  day  of  August,  1817,  in  Colwell  county, 
Kentucky.  His  father  moved  to  Illinois  in  October,  1819,  on  a 
pack-horse,  and  settled  near  Sugar  Creek,  twenty-five  miles  south 
of  Springfield.  His  nearest  neighbor  was  twenty-five  miles,  ex- 
cept Indians — they  were  plenty.  In  1840  he  lived  at  Hennepin; 
went  to  Springfield  in  June  of  that  year  to  attend  the  demonstra- 
tion; went  south  ten  miles  among  his  old  friends,  and  was  ap- 
pointed marshal  of  the  Sugar  Creek  Stone  Quarry  Delegation. 
Of  what  followed  Mr.  Durley  says:  "We  mounted  a  cabin  on 
wheels,  attached  twenty-four  yoke  of  oxen  to  it,  and  drove  to 
town.  Upon  our  arrival  we  were  more  than  welcomed — in  fact 
we  were  taken  by  storm — people  climbing  on  the  cabin  until  our 
team  was  stalled.  Mr.  Lincoln  happened  by,  and  I  said  to  him: 
'  Abe,  won't  you  take  a  whip  and  drive  the  lead  cattle  ?'  He 
did,  and  his  voice  could  be  distinctly  heard  above  the  din  and 


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applause  from  thousands  of  throats.  We  had  a  big  demonstra- 
tion— about  fifty  thousand."  Mr.  Durley  voted  for  Old  Tippe- 
canoe  at  Hennepin,  on  the  Illinois  River,  and  for  his  grandson 
in  1888.  

SHERMAN  W.   EDWARDS, 

Born  on  September  I4th,  1819,  in  the  town  of  Conneaut,  Ashta- 
bula  county,  Ohio;  from  whence  he  removed  at  the  age  of  seven 
years  to  Plymouth,  Ashtabula  county,  and  engaged  in  business 
there  until  his  twenty-fifth  year,  when  he  removed  to  Fairfield, 
Huron  county,  Ohio,  where  he  remained,  engaged  in  various  bus- 
iness capacities  till  1869,  taking  no  active  part  in  the  late  war  on 
account  of  physical  disqualifications.  In  1860-61  served  as  ser- 
geant-at-arms  in  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  State  of 
Ohio,  and  prior  to  that  tftne  was  for  three  years  commissioner  of 
Huron  county,  Ohio.  In  1869  Mr.  Edwards  came  to  Chicago, 
where  he  has  since  resided;  entered  the  grain  business,  and  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trade  in  1875,  with  which  body 
he  has  since  been  identified.  Mr.  Edwards  was  a  strong  "  Whig"' 
in  the  days  of  that  party,  and  at  Plymouth,  Ohio,  in  1840,  he 
cast  his  first  vote  for  the  "  Whig  "  presidential  candidate — Wil- 
liam Henry  Harrison.  From  the  date  of  its  organization,  Mr. 
Edwards  has  been  a  member  of  the  Republican  party,  and  has 
supported  with  enthusiasm  all  its  presidential  candidates,  and  es- 
pecially the  last  one — Benjamin  Harrison. 


WILLIAM   SIDNEY    ELLIOTT, 

A  native  of  the  "  Empire  State,"  having  been  born  in  North 
Hampton,  Montgomery  county,  January  i8th,  1813.  In  1819  his 
parents  removed  to  Balston  Spa,  Saratoga  county,  New  York, 
and  remained  there  until  1836.  During  these  years  the  elder 
Elliott  followed  agricultural  pursuits.  W.  S.  Elliott  attended 
school  in  winter  and  worked  on  farm  in  the  summer  until  1833, 
when  he  engaged  in  teaching  in  Rochester,  in  a  free  school,  sup- 
ported by  Gen  Riley.  At  this  time  the  slavery  agitation  became 
the  question  of  the  day.  The  first  anti-slavery  convention  ever 
held  in  New  York  State  met  in  1835  at  Utica,  and  the  subject  of 


W.   S.    ELLIOTT. 


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this  sketch  was  a  delegate  to  that  historical  meeting.  In  speak- 
ing of  this  convention  Mr.  Elliott  says:  "  On  assembling  great 
opposition  was  manifested  to  the  movement — and  the  president 
was  barely  elected  before  we  were  driven  from  the  hall,  and  later 
from  the  city.  But  by  the  good  hand  of  God  upon  us,  the  great 
colonizatkmist  and  Christian,  Garrett  Smith,  of  Peterborough, 
arose  in  the  confusion  and  said:  '  Gentlemen,  the  cause  that  sub- 
jects you  to  this  treatment,  subjects  me  to  the  same,  and  the 
same  cause  I  here  and  today  espouse,  and  invite  you  to  my  house 
and  city  to  finish  your  deliberations.'  We  left  Utica  at  once,  any 
way  we  could,  and  as  the  sun  arose  the  next  morning  we  quietly 
rested  our  weary  limbs  under  the  protection  of  one  of  America's 
greatest  philanthropists.  If  I  had  wanted  anything  in  enthu- 
siasm in  this  cause  of  the  abolition  of  slavery,  I  and  we  all  were 
now  equipped,  as  the  meeting  showed.  We  were  girded  with 
the  subject,  and  we  parted  to  our  homes  and  fields  of  labor — 
vowing  vengeance  upon  the  giant  sin,  the  giant  inconsistency  of 
a  self-styled  home  of  the  free." 

After  this  Mr.  Elliott  returned  to  his  home,  fully  imbued  with 
the  idea  that  the  great  West  was  the  place  for  the  full  fruition  of 
free  thoughts  and  actions,  and  where  the  death  of  slavery  would 
be  worked  out.  He  soon  after  removed  to  Michigan,  locating 
one  hundred  miles  east  of  Chicago.  Here  he  became  familiar 
with  the  fact  that  the  negroes  were  helping  themselves  to  free- 
dom, and  he  lent  a  helping  hand  on  every  opportunity,  so  that 
two  hundred  escaped  bondsmen,  via.  the  Indiana,  Ohio  and 
Michigan  Underground  Railway,  had  to  thank  Mr.  Elliott,  whose 
section  of  the  road  covered  a  distance  of  twenty  miles.  About 
the  time  the  war  broke  out  he  removed  to  Chicago,  and  later  to 
Quincy,  111.,  where  he  aided  in  equipping  men  of  younger  years 
for  the  great  struggle.  A  few  years  after  the  close  of  the  war  he 
again  returned  to  Chicago,  where  he  still  resides,  an  honored  and 
respected  citizen.  An  underground  conductor  had  no  politics 
but  Whig  and  Republican — his  first  vote  being  for  William  Henry 
Harrison  in  1840;  later  for  J.  G.  Birney,  and  his  vote  in  1888  was 
with  the  rest  of  our  brand,  a  solid  unit  for  General  Benjamin 
Harrison  and  Levi  P.  Morton. 


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FRANKLIN  EMORY, 

Born  March  Qth,  1827,  in  the  manufacturing  village  of  Dover, 
New  Hampshire,  his  father  being  a  machinist  by  trade — working 
for  the  Dover  Manufacturing  Company.  At  the  age  of  one  year 
his  parents  moved  from  there  to  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  his 
father  being  employed  to  build  and  put  up  the  machinery  in  the 
cotton  factory  in  that  village.  In  the  course  of  the  year  follow- 
ing his  father  bought  a  small  farm  in  Stratham,  N.  H.,  a  town  ad- 
joining Exeter  on  the  north.  Here  he  lived  until  he  was  eighteen 
years  of  age.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  years  his  father  died,  hav- 
ing been  sick  for  two  years.  At  the  age  of  twelve  years  he  was 
put  to  work,  as  best  he  could,  going  to  school  three  months  each 
year  in  the  winter,  until  he  was  eighteen  years  old,  when  he  went 
to  a  trade  in  Boston,  Mass.,  working  at  the  carpentering  business. 
After  working  at  this  business  for  three  years  he  went  to  Lowell, 
Mass.,  where  he  went  into  the  employ  of  the  Merrimac  Manu- 
facturing Company,  and  was  in  their  employ  for  about  five  years, 
two  years  later  coming  to  Chicago,  arriving  here  on  the  I7th  day 
of  November,  1853.  At  the  time  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison 
was  elected  by  the  Whigs  in  1840  he  was  not  old  enough  to  vote, 
but  sung  the  songs  and  carried  the  flag  to  help  the  cause  along, 
his  father  being  a  very  strong  party  man,  and  was  overjoyed  at 
having  a  Whig  president. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-three  he  married  Miss  Alice  Waten- 
house,  of  Portland,  Maine.  Eight  children  were  the  fruit  of  this 
marriage,  four  of  whom  are  living  and  have  families  of  their  own. 

When  the  Republican  party  was  organized,  in  1856,  in  this 
city,  he  was  one  of  the  first  to  espouse  the  cause,  and  has  ever 
since  voted  that  ticket  and  worked  for  it — the  last  vote  cast  by 
him  being  for  General  Benjamin  Harrison  for  president.  Be- 
lieving the  Republican  party  is  the  only  one  to  be  trusted  to 
bring  about  reforms  in  our  national  government,  he  has  always 
stuck  very  close  to  it. 

DANIEL  CAMPBELL  FERGUSON 

Was  born  in  Argyleshire,  in  the  highlands  of  Scotland,  February 
i/th,  1819,  and  came  with  his  parents  to  America  when  two  and 


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a  half  years  of  age.  They  settled  on  a  farm  in  the  town  of 
Oswegatchie,  county  of  St.  Lawrence,  and  State  of  New  York, 
near  Ogdensburgh.  There  he  spent  his  boyhood  until  twenty 
years  old;  attended  the  district  schools  of  the  neighborhood;  at- 
tended the  Ogdensburgh  Academy,  and  also  the  Attica  Acad- 
emy, Wyoming  county,  N.  Y.  Taught  school  and  studied  law 
with  Hon.  Senator  Harvey  Putnam  and  Judge  Hoyt.  Voted  for 
William  Henry  Harrison  in  1840;  has  voted  the  republican  ticket 
at  every  presidential  election  since.  He  has  four  sons  and  two 
sons-in-law,  all  staunch  Republicans,  who  cast  their  ballot  for  the 
man  whose  personal  character  and  political  principles  they  ad- 
mire and  respect — General  Benjamin  Harrison — citizen,  patriot, 
jurist,  hero. 

J.  C.  FERGUSON 

Was  born  in  Bourbon  county,  Kentucky,  October  5,  i8lO.  In 
1827  he  was  sent  by  his  father,  Dr.  C.  Ferguson,  to  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  to  learn  the  watch-making  and  jewelry  business.  He  re- 
mained there  four  years,  and  then  removed  to  Richmond,  Ind., 
remaining  there  twelve  years.  While  there  he  voted  in  1836-' 40 
for  William  Henry  Harrison  for  president  of  the  United  States. 
He  then  moved  to  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  and  lived  there  about 
thirty-eight  years,  voting  the  Whig  and  Republican  ticket.  On 
leaving  Indianapolis  he  came  to  Chicago,  where  he  now  resides, 
having  voted  here  for  Garfield  and  Harrison — the  latter  of  whom 
he  has  known  personally  for  twenty-five  years,  both  being  citi- 
zens of  Indianapolis.  Of  him  Mr.  Ferguson  says:  "I  always  felt 
safe  when  he  advised  me  in  law  matters;  and  I  believe  our  coun- 
try will  be  safe  and  prosperous  as  long  as  he  is  president  of  the 
United  States." 

J.  D.  FOLLETT 

Was  born  in  the  State  of  Vermont.  His  father  left  Vermont  for 
Ohio  in  1832  with  his  family,  but  had  barely  reached  there  when 
his  father  died,  leaving  the  children  orphans,  the  mother  having 
died  some  years  previously,  and  Mr.  Follett  cared  for  his  broth- 


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ers  and  sisters  on  his  own  individual  efforts  for  some  eight  years 
thereafter.  In  1840  he  voted  for  William  Henry  Harrison,  at 
Bellevue,  Ohio.  In  1850  he  crossed  the  plains  to  California, 
where  he  remained  until  1854,  when  he  returned  home  with  a  fair 
amount  of  gold  dust,  and  engaged  in  the  hardware  businesss  at 
Alleghan,  Michigan.  In  1888  he  voted  for  the  grandson  of  W.  H. 
Harrison. 


CHARLES  GILES  FOSTER 

Was  born  in  Hammond,  St.  Lawrence  county,  N.  Y.,  December 
14,  1821.  His  father,  Ozias  Foster,  was  a  Connecticut  Yankee, 
from  Sharon,  Litchfield  county.  His  mother,  Margaret  Banker 
Foster,  was  a  native  of  the  Mohawk  Valley,  N.  Y,  The  parents 
of  C.  G.  removed  from  St.  Lawrence  county  to  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
when  he  was  but  an  infant,  and  was  made  an  half-orphan  that 
same  year  by  the  sudden  demise  of  his  father,  from  apoplexy. 
His  widowed  mother  afterward  married  a  Vermonter  by  the  name 
of  Alvin  Hulbert,  and  the  boy  Charles  remained  at  home  until 
the  age  offifteenyears,  when,  in  the  fall  of  1836,  he  commenced 
the  printing  business,  as  an  apprentice,  on  a  weekly  Universalist 
paper,  published  in  Rochester,  called  The  Herald  of  Trutli.  The 
publisher  failed  during  the  first  year  of  his  venture,  and  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  soon  after  employed  on  the  New  York 
Watchman,  also  published  in  Rochester,  by  Delazon  Smith,  after- 
wards known  as  "Delusion"  Smith,  being  thus  nick-named  by 
George  Dawson,  editor  of  the  Albany  Evening  Journal.  Said 
Smith  (pardon  the  digression)  had  been  appointed  by  President 
Tyler  (of  "  Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too,"  fame)  a  consul  to  some 
obscure  point  in  South  America,  and  although  he  drew  his  salary 
with  great  regularity,  he  somehow  managed  to  elude  the  grasp  of 
the  government  a  year  or  two  after  it  desired  to  recall  him. 

His  second  employer  having  also  failed  during  the  first  year 
of  his  enterprise,  young  Foster  worked  for  a  time  on  the  old 
Genesce  Fanner,  and  on  the  Rochester  Daily  Advertiser,  both  pub- 
lished by  Luther  Tucker.  Having  sold  the  Daily  Advertiser,  in 
the  spring  of  1839,  to  Thomas  H.  Hyatt,  of  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  Mr. 


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Tucker  soon  after  removed  to  Albany  and  started  the  Cultivator, 
which  was  subsequently  consolidated  with  the  Country  Gentleman. 
By  this  change  of  base  on  the  part  of  his  employer,  young  Foster 
was  again  thrown  out  of  employment,  and  determined  to  go  east 
in  search  of  work.  He  secured  a  letter  of  introduction  to  Rev. 
A.  B.  Grosh,  editor  of  the  Evangelical  Magazine  and  Gospel  Advo- 
cate, of  Utica,  N.  Y.  Here  he  found  employment  for  two  months, 
and  while  there  became  acquainted  with  several  of  the  leading 
clergymen  of  the  Universalist  denomination,  who  were  regular 
contributors  to  the  last  named  publication.  From  Utica  he 
pushed  eastwardly,  and  found  steady  employment  on  the  old 
Troy  Daily  Whig,  on  which  journal  he  worked  for  ten  consecutive 
years,  from  the  fall  of  1839  to  '49.  Here  he  imbibed  his  political 
ideas;  and  during  the  entire  campaign  of  1840,  being*  then*  not 
quite  nineteen  years  of  age,  he  was  actively  engaged  in  a  glee 
club,  which  nightly  made  the  welkin  ring  with  the  praises  of 

"  Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too, 
And  with  them  we'll  beat  Little  Van,  Van,  Van, 
Van  is  a  used  up  man; 
And  with  them  we'll  beat  Little  Van." 

We  sang  one  song  during  the  campaign  which  I  should  very 
much  like  to  recall,  but  the  title  to  which  has  entirely  escaped 
my  memory.  It  represented  all  the  States  rigged  up  as  sailing 
vessels  for  a  grand  naval  engagement,  and  I  can  recall  only  this 
verse: 

"  Missouri,  new  rigged,  will  next  hoist  her  sail, 
Harrisonians  will  give  her  a  glorious  gale: 
At  the  port  which  she  starts  for  she  proudly  will  call, 
Leaving  tumble-bug  Benton  rolling  his  ball. 
On  the  shore  of  Salt  River, 
On  the  shore  of  Salt  River, 
On  the  shore  of  Salt  River, 
Salt  River— I— O!" 

In  September,  1849,  Mr-  Foster  removed  to  Beloit,  Wis., 
where  he  at  once  entered  into  a  co-partnership  with  John  R. 
Briggs  in  the  publication  of  the  Beloit  Journal,  a  staunch  Whig 


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newspaper.  In  1853  he  purchased  Mr.  Briggs'  interest  in  the 
paper,  and  upon  the  demise  of  the  Whig  party  in  1854,  Mr.  Fos- 
ter made  the  Journal  a  Republican  paper,  and  run  it  until  the 
fall  of  1855,  when  he  sold  it,  and  temporarily  retired  from  jour- 
nalism. 

Becoming  dissatisfied  with  the  long  and  severe  winters  of 
Wisconsin,  he  determined  to  imigrate  farther  south,  and  in  Jan- 
uary, 1858,  he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  and  embarked  in  the  book 
and  job  printing  business.  He  found  a  milder  clime,  but  could 
not  become  accustomed  to  the  usages  and  business  methods,  not 
to  mention  the  execrable  political  ideas,  of  the  people  of  a  slave 
State;  and  hence,  in  the  spring  of  1859  he,  metaphorically  speak- 
ing, "  left  the  world  and  climbed  a  tree,"  bringing  up  in  the  State 
of  Arkansas.  After  floundering  about  for  a  year  or  two,  on  the 
5th  of  July,  1861,  he  reached  Fort  Smith,  on  the  Arkansas  river, 
completely  "  out  o'  sorts."  The  slaveholders'  war  on  the  Union 
was  then  thoroughly  inaugurated,  and  it  being  entirely  unsafe  for 
him  to  work  his  way  north  into  "  God's  country,"  he  resigned 
himself  to  his  fate,  within  the  lines  of  "  Dixie."  By  keeping  a 
close  mouth,  and  by  strict  attention  to  his  business  as  a  job  prin- 
ter, he  managed  to  replenish  his  exhausted  exchequer  sufficiently 
to  maintain  himself  until  Gen.  Blunts  "  Army  of  the  Border " 
drove  off  the  rebels  and  took  possession  of  the  city  and  fort. 
This  occurred  September  1st,  1863.  He  was  immediately  em- 
ployed by  the  General  commanding  as  government  printer,  and 
from  that  time  on  his  star  was  in  the  ascendant.  At  the  close  of 
the  war  he  located  at  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  in  April,  1865,  with  a 
new  job  printing  outfit.  In  April,  1867,  he  formed  a  co-partner- 
ship with  Col.  John  Wilder,  of  Boston,  and  purchased  the  Kansas 
City  Daily  Journal,  the  only  newspaper  that  survived  the  war  at 
that  point.  Col.  Wilder  having  been  assassinated  in  April,  1869, 
Mr.  Foster  associated  with  himself  in  the  publication  of  the 
Journal,  Col.  R.  T.  Van  Horn  and  D.  K.  Abeel.  In  the  fall  of 
1871  he  sold  his  interest  in  the  Journal  and  removed  to  Chicago, 
where  he  immediately  opened  a  newspaper  advertising  agency, 
which,  together  with  newspaper  correspondence,  has  occupied 
his  time  almost  exclusively  down  to  the  present  time. 


HO  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

W.  P.  FRAILEY 

I  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  on  the  I2th  of  July,  1819,  and 
my  few  first  years  were  uneventful,  as  is  the  case  generally  with 
most  children.  At  the  age  of  five  years  the  presidential  contest 
virtually  between  John  Q.  Adams  and  Andrew  Jackson — although 
there  were  several  other  candidates  in  the  field — took  place,  and 
it  was  of  unusual  rancorous  feeling — manifesting  at  that  day  the 
feeling  which  characterizes  the  prominent  parties  of  the  present, 
sound  argument  and  intelligence  guiding  the  Whigs  in  their  con- 
duct of  the  contest — whilst  corruption,  whisky  and  profanity 
were  the  potent  weapons  of  the  Jackson  democracy — and  they 
have  so  continued  down  to  the  present  time.  Although  but  five 
years  old  at  that  time,  I  can  remember  distinctly  the  scenes  en- 
acted at  the  polls  near  my  home — and  my  politics  for  the  time 
and  since  may  be  said  to  have  been  formed  from  that  date — as  I 
have  continued  to  be  a  determined  opponent  to  Jackson  Dem- 
ocracy— which  is  but  another  name  for  that  of  the  present  day — 
Jackson  being  the  god-father  of  it,  instead  of  Jefferson. 

I  have  seldom,  if  ever,  cast  a  vote  for  a  Democrat,  but  have 
at  times  omitted  to  cast  my  vote  for  candidates  put  forward  by 
my  party  when  I  considered  them  unworthy.  Henry  Clay  was 
my  idea  of  a  statesman,  and  my  standard  and  guide  in  politics 
whilst  the  Whig  party  continued  in  existence.  When  it  dis- 
banded I  attached  my  fortunes  with  the  opponents  to  the  corrupt 
Loco  Foco  Democracy,  and  enrolled  my  name  on  the  list  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  cast  my  vote  for  John  C.  Fremont  in  1856, 
and  have  had  no  occasion  since  to  regret  my  connection  with  the 
party  of  reform — under  whose  guidance  the  country  has  been  led 
to  be  the  foremost  nation  on  earth. 

My  early  life  was  spent  in  acquiring  the  rudiments  of  an  or- 
dinary English  education,  which  ended  about  my  sixteenth  year, 
from  which  time  my  life  was  checkered.  In  1839  and  part  of 
1840,  up  to  July  of  the  latter  year,  I  was  engaged  with  the  gov- 
ernment forces  of  the  Navy  Department  in  connection  with  the 
army- in  driving  the  Seminole  and  other  Indians  out  of  Florida, 
and  have  paddled  in  a  canoe  over  most  of  what  is  known  as  the 
Everglades  in  search  of  the  red-skins.  In  the  rpring  of  1840  the 


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naval  part  of  the  expedition,  consisting  of  one  brig  and  five 
schooners,  were  ordered  home — and  reached  Norfolk,  Va.,  early  in 
July — where  I  resigned  my  position  and  returned  to  my  home  in 
Baltimore,  where  I  remained,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  cast  my 
first  vote  for  Wm.  H.  Harrison  for  president  of  the  United  States. 
Remaining  in  Baltimore  until  1843,  m  the  fall  of  which  year  I 
visited  Ohio,  and  became  so  well  pleased  with  western  life  that 
my  home  was  made  at  various  times  in  the  several  States  of 
Ohio,  Indiana,  Nebraska,  and  finally,  in  1859,  in  Illinois,  in  which 
latter  State  I  have  since  resided — nine  years  at  Galesburg  and 
over  twenty  years  last  past  in  Chicago.  Thirteen  years  of  the 
twenty  spent  in  Chicago — from  1869  to  1882 — were  spent  in  the 
employ  of  the  Pennsylvania  Co.  (R.  R. )  in  its  general  passenger 
department — when  changes  in  the  head  of  which  resulted  in  my 
release. 

It  gave  me  unspeakable  pleasure  to  be  able  to  cast  my  vote 
in  1888  for  Benjamin  Harrison  for  president,  that  I  might  be  able 
to  say  that  I  had  cast  my  suffrages  for  two  generations  of  the 
same  family  for  the  most  exalted  position  on  earth — both  of 
whom  were  well  fitted  by  nature  and  education  to  fill  the  place 
with  honor  to  themselves  and  benefit  to  the  nation.  I  regret  that 
my  financial  condition  would  not  admit  of  my  witnessing  the  in- 
auguration of  the  grandson  as  I  did  of  the  grandfather. 


S.  D.  FROST 

Born  May  :6th,  A.  D.,  1816,  at  Pompey,  Onondago  county,  New 
York.  His  early  life  was  more  full  of  vicissitudes  than  fall  to 
the  lot  of  most  boys,  by  reason  of  the  death  of  his  father;  but 
when  nineteen  years  of  age  he  had  mastered  the  trade  of  harness- 
making  and  the  carriage  trimmer's  art,  and  later  became  a  pro- 
fessional occulist.  He  cast  his  first  vote  for  General  William 
Henry  Harrison  in  1840,  at  Pompey,  and  voted  for  Clay  in  1844, 
and  came  west  in  1854  to  Xenia,  Ohio,  removing  to  Chicago  in 
1871.  In  the  disastrous  fire  of  that  year  he  lost  his  all,  and  like 
many  others,  was  compelled  to  go  back  to  first  principles,  again 
entering  the  ranks  as  a  journeyman  carriage-maker.  In  his  sev- 


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enty-third  year  he  still  follows  his  trade,  when  work  is  to  ba 
found,  but  believes  that  carriage-makers  are  "  opposed  to  a  gray- 
bearded  administration."  His  vote  in  1888  was  cast  for  "  Young 
Tippecanoe,"  and  he  is  right  proud  of  the  grandson — while  duly 
respecting  the  memory  of  his  glorious  grandsire,  whose  sudden 
and  untimely  death  he  attributed  to  partisan  treachery. 


JOHN   GAGE 

Was  born  in  Litchfield,  Herkimer  county,  N.  Y.,  I2th  day  of 
August,  1802.  He  remained  on  his  father's  farm  for  eighteen 
years,  where  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  moulder  in  brass.  He  re- 
moved to  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  in  1823.  In  1835,  with  a  large  cov- 
ered spring  wagon,  he  started  for  Chicago,  arriving  here  August 
4th,  1836,  with  a  vowed  purpose  of  building  a  flouring  mill.  He 
was,  however,  unable  to  find  lumber  or  materials,  but  in  five 
months  he  had  overcome  these  difficulties,  and  was  operating 
three  run  of  stones,  and  made  flour  enough  to  reduce  the  price 
from  $17  to  $12  per  barrel.  In  1836-' 40  he  voted  for  Gen.  Wil- 
liam H.  Harrison  in  this  city,  the  polling  place  being  at  Scott's 
planing  mill,  between  Canal  street  and  the  river.  He  was  chair- 
man of  the  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago  in  1840,  which  was  con- 
tinued some  time  after  the  election,  the  meetings  being  held  in 
the  second  story  of  a  frame  building  on  the  northeast  corner  of 
North  Water  street  and  State  street.  We  can  better  imagine  than 
describe  the  pleasure  to  Mr.  Gage  for  being  allowed  to  live  to 
see  the  grandson  of  the  illustrious  Whig  in  the  presidential  chair; 
to  join  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  1888,  to  parade  the  streets 
with  it,  and  to  again  attend  the  meetings,  this  time  not  in  a  sec- 
ond story  of  a  frame  building,  but  in  the  commodious  club  rooms 
in  the  Grand  Pacific  Hotel. 


LEMAN  WOOD  GARLICK 

Was  born  January  1st,  1815,  in  the  town  of  Kent,  Litchfield 
county,  Connecticut.  His  parents,  Leman  and  Mary  Garlick, 
that  year  moved  with  seven  of  their  children  to  New  Lisbon, 
Otsego  county,  N.  Y.  Leman  W.  lived  with  his  parents  until 


L.  W.  GARLICK. 


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twelve  years  of  age,  and  was  brought  up  in  strict  accordance 
with  the  teachings  of  the  Bible.  He  then  went  to  live  with  his 
oldest  brother,  Horatio  Garlick,  who  had  settled  in  Mt.  Upton, 
Chenango  county,  N.  Y.,  and  remained  three  years,  going  to 
school  and  working  in  the  shop  with  his  brother  at  the  tailoring 
business.  At  the  age  of  sixteen,  having  a  strong  desire  to  be  a 
wood-worker,  he,  by  mutual  consent,  left  his  brother  and  went  to 
learn  the  trade  of  cabinet-making  with  James  B.  Frasier,  of  Har- 
persville,  Broome  county,  N.Y.,  where  he  remained  for  five  years. 
At  that  time  all  workmen  were  required  to  work  from  six  in  the 
morning  until  nine  at  night.  During  the  time  of  his  apprentice- 
ship he  formed  the  acquaintance  of  the  young  people  of  the 
place,  and  was  invited  in  society,  and  for  the  first  time  in  his 
life  was  invited  to  a  sleigh-ride.  He  being  almost  a  stranger,  and 
but  partially  acquainted  with  the  young  ladies,  did  not  get 
around  t  j  make  his  choice  soon  enough,  as  the  other  young  men 
had  engaged  them.  He  did  not  know  what  to  do.  As  he  was 
then  attending  school  he  selected  a  little  girl  two  years  his  junior 
who  had  never  been  in  company.  She  accepted,  and  they  went 
off  in  flying  colors'  for  the  first  time — but  it  was  not  the  last 
time — for  on  December  25th,  1835,  m  the  town  of  Harpersville, 
Broome  county,  N.  Y.,  they  were  made  man  and  wife,  and  have 
lived  as  such  over  fifty-three  years  in  the  true  love  and  affection 
that  belongs  to  man  and  wife.  They  have  been  blessed  with 
four  sons,  all  now  living,  and  one  lovely  daughter,  who  died 
when  she  was  twenty-two  years  old. 

At  the  time  L.  W.  G.  was  married  he  took  his  young  wife  to 
Oxford,  Chenango  county,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  engaged  at  his 
trade.  In  1836  he  cast  his  first  vote  for  William  Henry  Harrison 
for  president  of  the  United  States,  and  in  the  same  town  in  1840 
he  again  voted  for  William  H.  Harrison,  and  he  was  elected,  but 
to  universal  regret,  died  four  weeks  after  taking  the  chair.  Mr. 
Garlick  has  voted  at  every  subsequent  presidential  election,  and 
is  thankful  today  that  it  has  been  a  Whig  and  Republican  vote, 
including  that  for  General  Benjamin  Harrison. 

In  1843  Mr.  Garlick  left  Oxford  with  his  family  of  wife  and 
three  children,  and  settled  in  the  village  of  Tecumche,  Michigan, 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  115 

and  lived  there  nine  months,  then  moved  to  Adrian,  Mich.,  where 
he  remained  for  over  twelve  years;  then  he  moved  to  Hudson, 
Mich.,  remaining  two  years.  His  health  failing  him,  he  sold  out 
and  went  to  Coldwater,  Mich.,  and  remained  there  three  or  four 
years;  then  to  South  Bend,  Ind.  Not  being  content  there  he 
moved  to  La  Porte,  Ind.,  where  he  went  into  the  furniture  busi- 
ness. In  1861  his  health  entirely  gave  out,  so  by  the  advice  of 
friends  he  went  to  traveling  in  the  interest  of  a  life  insurance 
company.  In  1871  he  came  to  Chicago  and  engaged  in  the 
same  business  until  fall,  when  the  great  fire  destroyed  all  its  bus- 
iness prospects  for  the  near  future.  He  then  went  to  Tiffin, 
Ohio,  for  two  years,  and  then  returned  to  Chicago,  where  he  has 
ever  since  lived  with  his  sons.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Old  Tip- 
pecanoe  Club,  and  hopes  to  live  to  vote  for  a  second  term  of 
President  General  Benjamin  Harrison,  the  true  representative  of 
his  life-long  political  principles.  Mr.  Garlick  always  lived  a 
quiet,  peaceful  life.  In  consequence  of  age  and  ill-health  he  was 
disqualified,  and  could,  therefore,  not  be  accepted  to  perform 
military  service  in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  but  he  did  what  he 
could  for  his  country,  and  with  that  motive  "uppermost  always 
worked  hard  to  elect,  first  Whigs,  then  Republicans  to  office. 


WILLIAM  GARNETT. 

I  was  born  at  Glasgow,  Barron  county,  Kentucky,  on  the  2/th 
day  of  March,  1816,  of  Virginia  parentage.  My  father  was  Clerk 
of  Barron  Circuit  Court  from  its  establishment,  some  forty  years. 
My  educational  advantages  were  quite  limited.  On  the  2ist  of 
January,  1840,  I  was  married  to  Angonia  Tompkins,  daughter  of 
the  Hon.  Christopher  Tompkins,  of  Glasgow.  He  was  many 
years  Circuit  Court  Judge,  and  for  two  terms  a  member  of  Con- 
gress. We  raised  nine  children — six  sons  and  three  daughters — 
all  living,  except  our  oldest  son  Christopher,  who,  in  August, 
1862,  went  into  the  Union  army  as  a  private  in  the  Seventy-Sec- 
ond Illinois  Regiment,  and  on  the  23d  of  May,  1863,  was  killed 
in  a  skirmish  around  Vicksburg.  During  all  these  years  of  our 
married  life  my  wife  has  been  a  real  "  home  missionary  " — having 


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given  her  life  fully  to  her  husband,  children  and  home.  In  the 
fall  of  1840  I  gave  my  first  presidential  vote  to  Gen.  William 
Henry  Harrison,  "Tip.  and  Ty."  The  "Ty"  proved  to  be  very 
unsatisfactory.  I  have  never  regretted  the  Harrison  vote, 
and  was  ready  in  November,  1888,  with  five  sons,  one  son- 
in-law,  and  one  grandson,  to  vote  for  General  Benjamin  Harrison^ 
with  equal  success. 

In  June,  1839,  I  was  appointed  Clerk  of  the  Barren  Circuit 
Court,  in  which  capacity  I  served  until  the  summer  of  1850 
(eleven  years),  after  which  I  resigned  and  went  into  the  mer- 
cantile and  manufacturing  business  in  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
from  whence  I  came  to  Chicago,  and  have  been  a  resident  of 
this  city  ever  since  that  date.  In  1859-60  I  was  cashier  of 
Southern  Bank  of  Kentucky,  at  Louisville. 

In  my  early  life  I  had  scruples  about  slavery,  but  also  pos- 
sessed an  ambition  to  acquire  wealth,  and  took  slaves  by  gift 
and  purchase.  However,  after  much  reflection  and  anxiety  on 
the  subject,  I  became  convinced  of  the  fact,  and  accepted  in  my 
mind  that  the  often  forgotten  words  of  the  immortal  Jefferson, 
in  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  "That  all  men  are  erected 
free  and  equal,  and  entitled  to  life,  liberty,  and  the  pursuit  of 
happiness,"  meant  exactly  what  they  said,  and  that  slavery  was 
a  sin  against  God,  and  in  the  sight  of  a  large  percentage  of  the 
best  men  and  women  of  the  age.  So,  "  believing  that  slavery 
was  wrong  in  principle  and  practice,  and  productive  of  great 
evil  to  both  master  and  slave"  (as  expressed  in  deed  of  emanci- 
pation), on  the  2Oth  day  of  October,  1845,  I  went  into  the  Barron 
County  Court  and  duly  emancipated  eight  slaves  (all  I  at  that 
time  possessed),  and  gave  bond  for  their  maintenance,  as  was  re- 
quired by  law,  retaining  guardianship  of  them  until  they  were 
of  age.  Among  them  were  three  names  of  national  and  world- 
wide fame,  viz: 

Daniel  Webster,  seven  years  of  age, 

Henry  Clay,  five  years  of  age, 

John  Quincy  Adams,  three  years  of  age. 

For  this  act  there  was  heaped  upon  me  the  wrath  of  many 
old  friends,  of  both  political  parties;  but  they  neither  killed  me 


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nor  rode  me  on  a  rail.  However,  I  so  much  expected  the  latter 
that  I  kept  a  leaded  gun  to  defend  the  fort,  for  I  did  not  propose 
to  ride  in  any  such  way,  and  guess  it  was  generally  understood 
that  such  was  my  determination,  for  however  many  were  the 
threats,  they  were  never  carried  out,  and  my  life  went  on  in  the 
even  tenor  of  its  way. 

When  Mr.  Lincoln  was  first  a  candidate  for  the  presidency, 
my  home  then  being  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  the  commercial 
city  of  the  State,  with  a  population  then  of  some  60,000  (now 
said  to  be  some  200,000),  I  was  one  of  one  hundred  and  thirteen 
in  that  city  who  voted  for  Lincoln,  and,  with  Capt.  Hamilton, 
was  placarded  up  around  town  as  "  having  voted  the  Abolition 
ticket."  But  that  did  not  disturb  me  very  much,  for  as  far  back 
as  1849,  in  my  own  native  county,  at  a  public  political  debate, 
before  a  large  gathering,  one  of  the  speakers  from  the  stand 
pointed  me  out  "  As  the  king  of  the  Abolitionists."  Even  this 
intended  insult  elicited  no  reply.  Such  taunts  as  these  could  not 
move  me.  I  was  firm  in  my  convictions  then,  and  nearly  half  a 
century  has  only  served  to  strengthen  me  in  them.  While  not 
loving  my  native  State  less,  but  my  country  more,  I  think 
I  may  lay  claim,  in  all  modesty,  to  the  proud  title  of  a  "  loyal 
man." 

DR.  AARON  GIBBS 

Was  born  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  the  i;th  day  of  April,  1807.  His 
father  was  a  private  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  He  removed  to 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  practiced  dentistry  for  seven  years.  He  came  to 
Chicago  in  1844;  he  voted  for  William  Henry  Harrison  in  1840 — 
has  been  an  active  Republican,  and  voted  for  General  Harrison 
in  1888. 

CAPT.  GEO.  W.  GIDRON 

Was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  on  the  3ist  of  May,  1814,  of  Prus- 
sian parentage,  and  was  educated  for  a  physician.  He  left  that 
city  for  the  then  "  far  west,"  and  arrived  in  Galena,  Jo  Davies 
county,  State  of  Illinois,  in  April,  1835,  anc^  m  ^36  was  appointed 
captain  of  the  steamer  "  Heroine,"  navigating  between  Galena 


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and  the  port  of  St.  Louis,  and  remained  on  the  Mississippi  river 
commanding  and  superintending  various  steamboats  until  he  re- 
ceived the  appointment  of  U.  S.  Inspector  of  Steam  Vessels  of 
Galena  district.  He  held  that  position  until  removed  by  the 
Cleveland  administration,  July,  1885,  "  without  cause,"  but  the 
real  cause  was  he  escorted  the  late  lamented  Gen.  John  A.  Logan 
from  Galena,  111.,  to  Dubuque,  la.,  in  the  campaign  of  '84.  He 
voted  in  Galena  in  1836-' 40  for  Gen.  W.  H.  Harrison,  and  in  1888 
tor  "  Young  Tip.,"  Gen.  B.  Harrison. 


J.   H.  GILL 

Was  born  in  Jefferson  county,  Mt.  Pleasant  township,  Mt.  Pleas- 
ant town,  Virginia,  January  31,  1813.  His  parents  were  Quakers. 
They  followed  banking,  milling,  stock-raising  and  farming.  His 
father,  two  brothers  and  himself  all  voted  for  General  Harrison 
in  1836-40 — not  one  of  their  family  being  Democrats.  Their 
Whigism  commenced  with  the  Revolution  in  1776— his  grand- 
father, William  Hana,  of  Berk  county,  Va.,  carrying  a  musket 
seven  years  during  that  war.  Mr.  Gill  died  March  13,  1889. 


THOMAS  GOODMAN, 

Born  at  Market  Harborough,  in  Leicestershire,  England,  on 
February  2,  1816.  When  I  was  about  five  years  old  the  family 
moved  to  London,  where  I  was  brought  up  as  far  as  to  the  age 
of  sixteen.  On  July  26,  1832,  I  bade  farewell  to  my  father  and 
mother  and  native  home,  and  sailed  on  the  good  ship  Columbia, 
Captain  Delano,  Mate  Morris,  2d-Mate  Delacroix,  for  the  United 
States.  Perhaps  you  smile  at  my  particularity,  but  let  me  tell 
you  a  sea  voyage  in  1832  was  no  insignificant  enterprise.  I 
reached  New  York  in  good  order  on  September  1832;  went  up  to 
Albany  on  a  steamer,  and  then  on  a  canal-boat  to  Buffalo,  thence 
on  a  schooner  to  Ohio.  My  first  stopping  place  was  Cleveland, 
but  it  was  a  little  bit  of  a  village — only  twelve  hundred  people. 
Stayed  there  about  eight  months,  then  went  to  Canton,  which 
was  about  double  the  size.  Reached  there  in  May,  1833.  The 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  1 1C) 

Clerk  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  appointed  me  his  clerk,  to 
make  up  records,  etc.  Remained  in  that  office  five  years.  Was 
naturalized  at  Ravenna,  Portage  county,  Ohio,  on  the  26th  of 
September,  1837 — ^ess  than  one  month  after  my  five  years  resi- 
dence closed.  Voted  the  Whig  and  Republican  tickets.  I  mar- 
ried June  26,  1838.  It  was  in  that  same  town  of  Canton  I  voted 
for  General  Harrison.  He  had  been  in  Massillon  a  few  months 
before  in  company  with  Tom  Ewing,  Tom  Corwin,  and  Salmon 
P.  Chase.  I  met  him  there,  shook  hands  with  him,  and  wished 
him  good  luck  in  the  name  of  the  Lord.  I  helped  sing  him  into 
the  presidency.  'I  have  five  daughters  and  three  sons,  all  well — 
no  break  in  that  chain — four  girls  married,  all  the  boys  married. 
Seven  good  Republican  votes  now,  and  all  those  seven  for  Ben- 
jamin Harrison;  and  of  the  fifteen  grandchildren,  all  in  de  bene 
esse,  there  is  a  prospect  of  more  Republican  votes  in  future. 

Last  summer  I  was  in  Indianapolis,  and  my  friend  Carr,  the 
Auditor  of  State,  took  me  to  his  house  and  introduced  me  to 
General  Harrison.  Upon  my  word  he  don't  look  unlike  the  old 
General  in  1840.  I  told  him  I  voted  for  his  grandsire,  and 
should  vote  for  him,  and  I  did,  here  in  the  Eleventh  Ward  of 
Chicago.  I  think  we  have  been  mighty  fortunate  in  getting  just 
that  man  and  no  other. 


SAMUEL  B.  HAGGARD 

Was  born  in  Winchester,  Clark  county,  Kentucky,  November  8, 
1814,  to  which  place  his  father,  Dawson,  moved  with  his  parents, 
in  1793,  from  Virginia.  His  grandfather,  David  Haggard,  was 
born  in  Virginia,  and  was  a  near  neighbor  of  Thomas  Jefferson. 
He  served  in  the  army  during  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  being 
present  at  Yorktown  at  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis.  In  1818 
S.  B.  moved  to  Christian  county  with  his  father,  and  afterward  to 
Trigg  county,  where  he  was  raised  and  lived  until  the  age  of 
twenty-one  years.  From  there  he  went  to  Bloomington,  111., 
making  the  journey  on  horseback.  Here  he  learned  the  carpen- 
ter trade.  In  1837  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Mason,  who 
was  also  a  native  of  Kentucky.  In  the  fall  of  1843  he  removed 
to  Chicago,  making  the  journey  in  a  wagon — occupying  about  a 


120  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

week's  time.  Here  he  entered  the  employ  of  Scoville  &  Gates, 
with  whom  he  remained  until  1847,  at  which  time  he  connected 
himself  with  McCormick  &  Gray,  setting  up  the  machinery  for 
their  reaper  works.  In  1850  he  left  their  employ  to  engage  in 
the  pump  business,  and  later  in  hardware.  In  1887  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Haggard  celebrated  their  golden  wedding.  In  1836  he  voted  for 
William  Henry  Harrison  and  again  in  1840.  Since  this  time  he 
has  voted  for  every  Whig  and  Republican  presidential  candidate, 
including  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison  in  1888. 


URIAH   HAIR 

Was  born  in  Washington  county,  Pa.,  April  7th,  1812.  His 
father  was  a  Whig,  and  in  the  campaign  of  1840  his  six  sons  who 
had  survived  him,  and  the  husbands  of  five  of  his  daughters  took 
a  lively  interest  in  the  campaign,  and  cast  ten  solid  votes  for 
"Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too."  But  two  of  the  Hair  family  are 
now  living,  these  two  being  members  of  the  Tippecanoe  Club, 
and  with  their  descendants — numbering  in  all  thirty-seven — cast 
a  solid  vote  of  thirty-seven  ballots  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison 
in  1888.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  the  affections  of  the  Hair  fam- 
ily have  ever  been  "  solid  "  for  the  Harrisons,  and  the  best  wishes 
of  the  survivors  are  for  the  successful  administration  of  the  pres- 
ent occupant  of  the  presidential  chair  for  our  country's  sake. 


T.  W.  HALL 

Was  born  near  Richmond,  Jefferson  county,  Ohio,  July  12,  1818, 
residing  in  the  same  State  till  1839,  when,  with  his  family,  he  re- 
moved to  Savannah,  now  in  Ashland  county,  Ohio,  where,  in 
1840,  he  cast  his  first  vote  for  the  successful  candidate.  On  the 
breaking  out  of  the  gold  fever  in  '49,  Mr.  Hall  crossed  the  plains 
via.  the  usual  route  of  the  day — ox  team — and  was  moderately 
successful,  returning  in  1853,  when  he  invested  his  surplus  in 
Wisconsin  farms,  but  in  1861  Chicago's  commercial  outlook  in- 
duced his  removal  here,  where  he  afterward  did  a  very  large  bus- 
iness as  a  wool  merchant.  He  voted  with  the  "Tippecanoes  " 
in  1888. 


S.  B.  HAGGARD. 


122  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

M.  W.  HAMMOND 

Was  born  in  1809.  Cast  his  first  vote  in  Otisco,  in  1830;  in  1832 
his  first  presidential  vote  for  Andrew  Jackson,  giving  his  reason 
therefor  "  he  was  not  a  Tory  Democrat,"  and  Mr.  Hammond  adds: 
"  I  may  say,  right  here,  that  I  do  not  think  there  is  a  Jacksonian 
Democrat  now  living  who  is  not  a  Republican."  In  1836  he 
voted  for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison,  and  being  a  musician 
put  his  "best  wind"  into  the  campaign,  and  again  in  1840,  with 
a  little  more  success,  he  used  the  same  old  instrument  for  "  Old 
Tippecanoe."  In  1888  he  cast  his  vote  for  the  "chip  of  the  old 
block,"  being  greatly  pleased  at  having  "  lived  to  see  the  day." 


JOSEPH  WARREN  HARMON,  M.  D., 

A  physician  and  surgeon,  was  born  in  Jefferson  county,  New 
York,  June  20th,  1815.  He  graduated  at  the  Black  River  Insti- 
tute, at  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  in  1840,  and  voted  for  Gen.  William 
Henry  Harrison  the  same  year,  at  Watertown.  He  graduated 
from  the  Albany  Medical  College  in  1845.  For  twelve  years  be- 
fore the  war  he  resided  near  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  was  a  near 
neighbor  and  family  physician  of  President  Garfield.  In  1861, 
when  Garfield  was  appointed  Colonel  of  the  Forty-Second  Regi- 
ment Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  he  requested  his  appointment  as 
surgeon  of  his  regiment.  Since  the  war  he  has  resided  in  and 
around  Chicago,  and  voted  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison  at  Blue 
Island,  111.,  in  1888. 

GEORGE  PAINE  HARRIS 

Was  born  in  Carlow,  Carlow  county,  Ireland,  March  5,  1818.  His 
father  was  an  Episcopalian;  his  mother  a  Quaker,  descended 
from  one  of  the  oldest  Quaker  families  of  Ireland,  named  Moffit. 
His  father,  George  Paine,  was  one  of  the  old  Paine  stock  of 
Revolutionary  times,  whose  name  was  Thomas,  and  who  wrote 
"The  Age  of  Reason,"  "Common  Sense,"  etc.;  a  fast  friend  of 
Thomas  Jefferson,  the  third  president  of  the  United  States.  The 
father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  generously  furnished  his 
thirteen  children  with  the  best  facilities  the  country  afforded  for 
their  education. 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  123 

In  1834  he  left  his  parental  roof  and  became  an  apprentice  to 
a  soap  and  tallow  chandler.  The  country  was  in  turmoil.  Two 
years  latter  he  became  seriously  impressed  concerning  his  future 
life,  and  on  May  28,  1837,  when  the  lightning  was  flashing,  the 
thunder  raving  and  the  rain  falling,  he  made  a  vow  as  high  as 
heaven,  as  deep  as  hell,  as  wide  as  the  world  is  round  and  as  long 
as  his  life  should  last,  that  he  would  never  use  tobacco  or  liquor, 
which  vow,  by  the  grace  of  God,  he  has  sacredly  kept.  In  1838 
his  minister,  Rev.  George  Vance,  was  absent,  attending  a  confer- 
ence, and  as  he  at  the  same  time  had  an  appointment  at  Castle- 
dermes,  a  Mr.  Kerr  accompanied  Mr.  Harris  to  fill  the  latter. 
The  Protestants  of  the  village  having  been  notified  accordingly, 
the  meeting  was  largely  attended,  and  was  first  addressed  by  Mr. 
Kerr.  Mr.  Harris  then  spoke,  when  under  the  influence  of  the 
spirit  every  person  in  the  house  fell,  except  one  man  —  a  police- 
man—  and  the  cries  for  mercy  were  like  those  on  the  day  of 
Pentecost.  In  September,  1838,  Mr.  Harris  started  for  New 
York,  bringing  letters  of  recommendation  and  certificate  of 
church  membership,  and  united  with  the  M.  E.  Church  —  Rev.  S. 
D.  Ferguson,  in  that  city  —  wherein  he  soon  found  many  con- 
genial Christian,  anti-slavery  spirits,  who  with  himself  became 
active  and  enthusiastic  workers  for  the  election  of  William 
Henry  Harrison  in  1840.  The  death  of  the  president  in  1841 
was  deeply  lamented.  That  summer,  Mr.  Harris  and  eight  con- 
federates, held  regular  Sunday  religious  meetings  on  the  wharfs 
on  the  North  river  with  good  results.  Upon  urgent  solicitation, 
he  was  then  induced  to  move  to  West  Flamboro,  a  country  town 
in  Canada,  to  teach  school  an'd  preach  the  gospel.  Enroute  he 
addressed  a  large  concourse  of  people  at  Utica,  N.  Y.  A  Mormon 
preacher  answered  him,  whereupon  Mr.  Harris,  if  the  demonstra- 
tion of  the  crowd  was  evidence,  handled  Mormonism  and  its 
advocate  to  their  utter  discomforture.  Arriving  at  his  destination, 
Mr.  Harris  was  hospitably  welcomed,  and  on  the  following  Sun- 
day preached  to  large  audiences — most  of  the  congregation  had 
never  heard  or  seen  a  Methodist  before.  The  next  day  school 
opened  in  the  new  school  house  and  all  went  well.  He  was 
chosen  a  class  teacher,  and  held  that  position  until  he  became 


124  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

an  itinerant  minister,  preaching  acceptably  throughout  the  circuit 
—many  souls  being  converted.  He  continued  his  itinerant  labor, 
either  as  curcuit  minister  or  presiding  elder,  until  1857,  when,  • 
differing  from  his  brethern  on  articles  of  Methodist  faith  separa- 
tion ensued,  and  he  continued  preaching  as  a  man  instead  as  a 
Methodist.  Soon  thereafter,  he  purchased  a  farm.  Crops  prov- 
ing poor,  he  traded  the  farm  for  other  property,  and  in  1860  en- 
gaged in  new  business.  He  was  an  ardent  admirer  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  and  on  hearing  the  disastrous  results  of  the  Bull  Run 
battle,  raising  his  hands  heavenward  he  exclaimed,  "Thank  God! 
Now  the  North  will  awake,  and  not  only  will  the  rebellion  be 
crushed,  but  slavery  must  die  with  it."  Moving  to  Minnesota,  he 
enlisted  in  Company  F,  Minnesota  Mounted  Rangers,  which  was 
sent  by  the  War  Department  to  the  frontier  against  the  Indians. 
During  this  service  he  availed  himself  of  the  opportunity  to 
preach  at  every  visited  fort.  On  the  expiration  of  his  term  of 
enlistment,  he  entered  as  a  veteran  in  Company  D,  Second 
Cavalry,  by  re-enlistment — was  commissary  of  company — and  so 
continued  until  promoted  to  Company  Eight,  First  Infantry; 
never  wore  shoulder  straps  nor  went  to  the  company;  was 
stationed  at  Fort  Snelling  by  appointment  from  Gov.  Stephen 
Miller,  and  took  charge  of  the  Convalescent  Department  until  the 
close  of  the  war,  after  which  he  went  to  Vermillion  mines, 
St.  Louis  county,  Minnesota,  but  was  never  re-imbursed  for  the 
time  and  money  invested  there.  At  that  time  Duluth's  popula- 
tion consisted  of  seven  families.  In  1873  he  spent  from  April  to 
September  in  the  South — preaching  at  Baltimore  and  Washington. 
Was  a  delegate  to  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of 
which  John  Wannemaker  was  chairman.  Returned  to  St.  Paul — 
remaining  there  during  the  winter — was  employed  to  go  to 
Nobles  county,  western  Minnesota.  While  there  he  profoundly 
realized  new  impressions,  concerning  another  life.  There  he  met 
departed  friends  face  to  face,  and  had  positive  evidence  that 
under  the  eternal,  inexorable  and  unchangable  law  of  the  Infinate 
Father,  he  could  converse  with  those  whose  spirits  had  departed, 
in  his  native  land.  In  1876  he  came  to  Chicago,  where  he  has 
continued  to  reside,  with  the  exception  of  three  years  in  Wheeler, 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  125 

Porter  county,  Indiana.  He  is  now  connected  with  a  railroad 
company.  Mr.  Harris  rejoices  in  unselfishly  endeavoring,  during 
a  long,  eventful  life,  to  perform  his  duty  towards  the  amelioration  of 
the  condition  of  his  fellow-men  and  lead  them  in  a  righteous  path. 
The  enforced  retirement  of  Cleveland  meets  his  hearty  approval 
and  bids  him  exclaim: 

The  dread  angel  of  death  spread  his  wings  on  the  blast, 
And  breathed  in  the  face  of  poor  Grover  as  he  passed; 
The  eye  of  the  President  waxed  death-like  and  chill, 
And  his  breast  heaved  but  once,  then— for  ever — kept  stilL 

Politically — Amen. 

CYRUS    MADISON    HAWLEY 

Was  born  m  Cortland  county,  New  York,  on  the  27th  day  of 
January,  A.  D.,  1815.  His  ancestors  were  from  Derbyshire, 
England,  and  of  Norman  blood.  Joseph  Hawley,  the  earliest 
ancestor  of  whom  he  has  reliable  information,  emigrated  to  this 
country  with  his  brothers  Francis  and  Johnathan,  and  landed  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  in  1640.  Soon  after  Joseph  settled  in  Stratford^ 
Conn.  Maj.  Hawley,  of  the  Revolution,  was  a  descendant.  Cap- 
tain Francis  Hawley  was  the  father  of  Joseph  Hawley  II,  the 
grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  biography.  He  settled  in  Old 
Huntington,  Fairfield  county,  Conn.,  and  married  Aanah  Lewis,  of 
the  same  place;  and  their  son  Lewis  was  born  February  5,  1778. 
He  was  a  cousin  of  Governor  Charles  Hawley,  of  Stanford,  Conn., 
and  married  Sarah  Tanner,  of  New  Port,  R.  I.  The  Tanners  were 
relatives  of  the  Hazzards,  Hillyers,  and  Thurstons,  of  New 
England. 

Cyrus  Madison  Hawley  is  the  son  of  Lewis  and  Sarah  Tanner 
Hawley,  and  a  brother  of  Hon.  Lewis  Tanner  Hawley,  of  Syra- 
cuse, N.  Y.,  and  a  relative  of  Gen.  Joseph  R.  Hawley,  now  repre- 
senting the  State  of  Connecticut  in  the  Senate  of  the  United 
States.  His  first  vote  for  president  was  in  1840,  when  he  cast  it 
for  Gen.  Wm.  H.  Harrison  in  the  interest  of  a  national  currency 
and  a  tariff  to  protect  our  home  industries.  In  the  interests  of 
universal  liberty  according  to  the  letter  and  spirit  of  the  consti- 


126  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

tution  of  the  United  States  as  then  existing,  in  1846  he  was  nom- 
inated as  a  candidate  for  Congress  against  Judge  Duer  and  Gen. 
Huff;  but  came  out  second  in  the  race — Duer  being  elected  by 
about  three  hundred  majority  over  him.  In  1847  Mr.  Hawley 
came  to  Chicago,  and  was  admitted  in  1849  to  tne  bar  of  the 
State;  and  in  1862  to  the  bar  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  United 
States. 

Not  until  i860  did  he  take  an  active  part  in  politics,  except  to 
cast  his  vote  for  the  candidates  of  the  Free  Soil  and  Republican 
parties  from  and  after  their  respective  organizations.  He  did  so 
because  he  loved  freedom  and  hated  slavery.  Early  in  1861  he 
wrote  articles  for  the  press,  under  the  nom  de plume  of  "  Mad- 
ison," in  which  he  advocated  the  right  and  duty  of  the  govern- 
ment to  issue  United  States  Treasury  Notes  as  a  circulating 
medium,  and  for  the  use  of  the  government  to  meet  its  immedi- 
ate demands;  and  in  which  he  antagonized  the  assumption  then 
put  forth  by  the  "  Copperheads  "  at  the  North,  and  the  rebels  of 
the  South,  that  the  States  had  the  right  to  withdraw  from  the 
Union  at  will.  John  C.  Calhoun  was  the  originator  of  this  treas- 
onable doctrine,  and  Jeff  Davis  and  Toombs  were  the  leaders  in 
the  attempt  to  put  it  in  practice.  He  was  also  an  earnest  advo- 
cate of  the  proclamation  of  the  President  as  commander-in-chief 
of.  the  army  and  navy,  as  a  war  measure,  to  preserve  the  Union  at 
the  expense  of  slavery,  and  the  employment  of  the  newly-made 
freemen  as  soldiers,  and  in  other  helpful  ways,  and  as  citizens 
equal  before  the  law,  their  endowment  with  the  elective  fran- 
chise. These  principles  of  freedom  being  settled,  he  favored 
clinching  them  with  the  thirteenth,  fourteenth  and  fifteenth 
amendments  of  the  constitution,  and  so  remove  all  possible 
doubts  in  favor  of  liberty  and  justice. 

Succeeding  his  association  with  Hon.  L.  and  G.  Trumbull  in 
the  practice  of  law,  in  1869,  with  the  consent  of  the  Senate,  he 
was  appointed  by  President  U.  S.  Grant  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Utah  Territory,  and  held  the  office  one  judicial  term. 
Soon  after  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City  he  attended  the  reception 
given  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  H.  Head  to  Hon.  Wm.  H.  Seward  and 
party,  where  he  met,  for  the  first  time,  Brigham  Young,  who,  on 


C.  M.  HAWLEY. 


128  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

being  introduced  to  Mr.  Hawley,  assumed  an  air  of  importance 
as  he  extended  his  hand,  and  remarked  in  measured  tones:  "  Sir, 
I  hope  you  have  not  come  here,  as  other  Judges  have  done,  to 
persecute  my  people."  With  like  deliberation  Mr.  Hawley  re- 
plied: "Sir,  I  have  not  come  to  persecute  the  people  of  Utah, 
but  to  administer  the  law  as  I  find  it."  This  ended  their  rela- 
tions, except  in  the  court  of  adjudication,  where  Young  was 
obliged  to  appear  as  a  party  defendant. 

Among  the  earliest  judicial  opinions  or  Judge  Hawley  was  the 
reversal  of  all  former  decisions  of  the  District  and  Supreme 
Courts,  whereby  they  had  conceded  the  right  of  the  legislature 
of  the  Territory  to  extend  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Probate  Courts 
to  that  of  common  law  and  chancery.  On  appeal  to  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States,  his  opinions  of  reversal  were  sus- 
tained. But  this  in  nowise  relieved  him  from  the  hostility  of  the 
Mormon  hierarchy,  nor  from  the  anathemas  of  their  church 
paper.  Their  excited  wrath  was  perhaps  greater,  when,  on  in- 
formation, after  arguments,  and  upon  consideration  and  judg- 
ment, he  issued  the  "Writ  of  Prohibition"  against  Probate  Judge 
Murdock,  restraining  him  from  other  jurisdiction  than  that  of 
Probate  and  its  incidents,  which  he  had  resumed  in  defiance  of 
the  Supreme  Court.  And  their  wrath  was  re-enkindled,  when,  on 
the  application  of  the  Governor,  he  issued  a  writ  to  the  United 
States  Marshal  for  the  arrest  of  the  officers  of  a  Mormon  regi- 
ment, charged  with  rebellion  against  the  government.  Their  ar- 
rest was  the  signal  for  the  assembling  in  and  around  the  court 
room  and  in  the  streets  of  thousands,  whose  whispered  threats 
were  intended  to  intimidate,  or  to  postpone  judicial  action.  But 
in  face  of  the  demonstration,  those  arrested  were  held  to  the 
grand  jury,  and  on  their  refusal  to  give  bail,  were  remanded  to 
custody.  Another  complaint  of  the  hierarchy  was  by  reason  of 
his  letter  written  at  the  request  of  Maj.-Gen.  Ord,  showing  the 
need  of  a  Military  Post  at  Beaver  City,  near  the  Mountain 
Meadow  massacre  of  over  one  hundred  and  thirty  citizens  on 
their  way  to  settle  in  southern  California,  by  the  Mormons,  dis- 
guised as  Indians,  to  possess  themselves  of  the  property  of  the 
emigrants,  valued  at  one  million  of  dollars.  The  letter  was  trans- 


OLD  TIPPECANOE  CLUB,  CHICAGO. 

mitted  by  Gen.  Ord  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  by  him  trans- 
mitted to  Congress,  with  the  approval  of  the  General  and  of  the 
Secretary.  This  letter  was  construed  by  the  Mormons  to  be  an 
attempt  to  bring  to  justice  those  of  the  Mormons  responsible  for 
this  horrible  slaughter;  and  among  the  disguised  Mormons  were 
leaders  in  the  church.  The  church  paper  commented  upon  the 
letter  as  an  atrocious  act  of  hostility  to  the  people,  The  Post, 
notwithstanding,  was  established,  Bishop  Lee,  the  protegee  of 
Brigham  Young,  and  by  his  appointment  was  the  Indian  Agent 
at  the  time  in  southern  Utah,  who  lead  the  murdering  slaughter, 
was  arrested,  indicted,  convicted,  and  was  executed  for  his; 
bloody  deed  on  the  identical  spot  of  the  massacre. 

At  the  close  of  his  judicial  term,  notwithstanding  the  previous 
sharp  antagonism  of  the  Mormon  papers  to  his  judicial  acts,  they 
awarded  him  both  judicial  ability  and  honesty,  insisting,  how- 
ever, that  he  was  prejudiced  against  their  religion. 

Before  leaving  the  Territory,  the  bar  tendered  him  a  banquet 
at  the  Walker  House,  which  was  joined  by  the  officers  of  Camp 
Douglas.  He  then  proceeded  to  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  entered 
into  co-partnership  with  Hon.  A.  G.  Riddle,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Hawley  &  Riddle.  Their  practice  was  confined  to  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  United  States  and  the  Departments  of  State. 

His  wife  is  the  daughter  of  Hon.  Henry  Fellows,  of  Monroe 
county,  N.  Y.,  and  the  grandaughter  of  Gen.  John  Fellows,  of: 
the  Revolution,  who  commanded  a  Brigade  near  Saratoga: 
Springs,  first  under  Gen.  Schuyler,  and  afterwards  under  Gen. 
Yates,  who  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  American  forces: 
in  northern  New  York  in  1777,  at  the  time  the  British  troops, 
under.  Gen.  Burgoyne,  were  threatening  our  lines  in  the  endeavor 
to  reach  their  supplies  and  re-enforcements,  then  on  the  way 
from  New  York  City  up  the  North  River.  Gen.  Yates  antici- 
pating Burgoyne's  movement,  dispatched  Gen.  Fellows  with  fif- 
teen hundred  men  to  the  east  side  of  the  North  River,  on  the 
supposition  Burgoyne  would  attempt  to  cross  over;  but  in  this 
Gen.  Yates  was  mistaken,  and  Gen.  Fellows,  having  ascertained 
the  mistake,  received  orders  to  re-cross  the  river  to  the  north 
side,  which  he  succeeded  in  doing,  and  took  position  on  "  Batten 


130  MEMORIAL    BOOK   OF   THE 

Kill,"  where  he  was  able  to  hold  the  British  forces  in  check,  and 
to  prevent  their  re-enforcements  and  supplies  from  reaching 
them.  This  placed  Burgoyne  and  his  command  in  our  hands, 
and  compelled  his  surrender  to  Gen.  Yates  on  the  7th  of  October, 
1777.  These  particulars  are  recited  more  fully  by  Gen.  Bullard 
in  his  centennial  address  in  Saratoga  county  in  1876. 

Mrs.  Hawley  inherited  from  her  grandfather — Gen.  John  Fel- 
lows— and  has  now  in  her  possession,  a  precious  souvenir — the 
personal  general  order  memorandum  book  of  Gen.  George  Wash- 
ington in  his  own  handwriting,  from  the  5th  day  of  August  to 
the  28th  day  of  September,  1776,  inclusive.  As  to  how  her 
grandfather  came  to  possess  it  is  not  known. 

By  reason  of  impaired  health,  Judge  Hawley  retired  from 
professional  labor,  and  in  1879  returned  to  Chicago,  and  in  1880 
took  residence  in  Hyde  Park,  Illinois,  where  he  now  resides.  In 
the  Republican  compaign  of  1888  he  was  an  active  participant, 
and  voted  to  elect  Gen.  Benj.  Harrison  and  Levi  P.  Morton  pres- 
ident and  vice-president  of  the  United  States  of  America. 


WILLIAM  P.  HEWITT 

"Was"  born  March  25th,  1816,  in  Syracuse  county,  N.  Y.,  moving  to 
Ontario  county  shortly  after,  and  at  sixteen  years  of  age  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he  has  followed  until  within  the  last 
few  years.  Cast  his  first  vote  in  1840  for  Gen.  W.  H.  Harrison. 
In  1846  he  removed  to  Chicago,  but  not  "  liking  the  mudhole  as 
it  was  then,"  went  to  Wellington,  where  he  carried  on  his  busi- 
ness for  twenty  years,  returning  to  Chicago  in  1866,  and  has  lived 
here  ever  since.  Voted  for  Gen.  Harrison  in  1888,  and  has  ever 
voted  the  straight  Republican  ticket. 


WALTER  S.  HINKLEY 

First  saw  the  light  of  day  in  January,  1815,  in  the  town  of  Buck- 
land,  Franklin  county,  Mass.  His  father  was  a  descendant  of 
Thomas  Hinkley,  the  last  Governor  of  Plymouth  Colony.  His 
mother  was  of  the  same  stock  as  James  Otis,  of  Revolutionary 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  131 

fame.  His  early  life  was  spent  on  his  father's  farm  at  Holland 
Purchase,  N.  Y.,  whither  the  family  had  removed  in  1816.  In 
1834  he  studied  law  and  taught  school.  In  1872  he  removed 
with  his  family  to  Riverside,  Cook  county,  Illinois.  He  has  never 
sought  office,  but  was  appointed  by  William  H.  Seward,  Ex- 
aminer in  Chancery  and  Master  in  Chancery  in  1840,  and  for  sev- 
eral years  held  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  the  towns 
where  he  resided,  Mr.  Hinkley  has  traveled  considerably,  hav- 
ing made  the  tour  of  the  continent  of  England  and  Scotland, 
and,  unlike  many  Americans,  has  "  done  "  his  own  country.  He 
voted  for  William  Henry  Harrison  in  the  years  1836  and  1840,  at 
Rochester,  New  York.  Took  an  active  part  in  both  campaigns, 
being  marshal  of  the  processions,  "sometimes  miles  in  length," 
and  attended  the  Baltimore  convention.  In  1888  he  was  for 
Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison  first,  last,  and  all  the  time,  and  he  adds: 
"  I  think  he  has  made  no  mistake,  but  shown  remarkable  ability 
and  fitnes  for  the  high  office." 


REV.  DANIEL  GARLAND  HOLMES 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  the  town  of  Barnstead, 
Stafford  county,  New  Hampshire,  April  5th,  1812,  and  is,  there- 
fore, in  his  77th  year  of  age.  Mr.  Holmes  comes  of  good  old 
Puritan  stock — his  ancestors  being  among  the  earliest  emigrants 
from  old  England.  His  father,  Isaac  Holmes,  was  born  and  al- 
ways lived  in  the  town  of  Farmington,  New  Hampshire,  where 
he  died  at  the  age  of  of  78.  Mr.  D.  G.  Holmes  had  the  usual 
New  England  schooling  advantages,  or  disadvantages,  as  three 
months  at  school  in  a  year  might  certainly  be  called,  but  he  was 
more  fortunate  in  fitting  himself  for  the  ministry,  as  he  had  the 
advantages  of  schools  and  colleges  at  Lowell,  Boston  and 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  Whitestown,  N.  Y.,  at  which  latter  place  he 
graduated.  Mr.  Holmes  celebrated  his  first  presidential  vote  on 
the  wrong  side  of  the  fence,  voting  in  1836  for  Van  Buren,  but  he 
soon  saw  the  error  of  his  way,  and  when  Van  Buren  attempted  a 
second  term,  Holmes'  vote  was  added  to  the  rousing  majority  of 
William  Henry  Harrison,  and  from  that  time  to  the  present  he 


132  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

has  ever  been  a  steadfast,  hard-working  Republican,  and  he 
glories  in  it.  As  a  reason  for  his  change  of  heart  Mr.  Holmes 
says: 

"The  great  change  wrought  in  my  mind  in  1840  had  a  cause, 
and  that  cause  was  so  plainly  presented  to  the  people  that  party 
lines  could  not  prevent,  nor  party  leaders  hold  the  people  from  a 
change.  The  Democratic  party,  under  the  leadership  of  Presi- 
dents Jackson,  Van  Buren,  and  others,  had  manifested  a  great 
deal  of  ability  in  overthrowing  the  national  bank,  and  in  breaking 
up  the  old  system  of  finance;  but  the  people  had  discovered  also 
that  they  had  not  the  ability  to  provide  a  better  system  to  put  in 
its  place,  nor  did  they  have  wisdom  or  the  power  to  put  limits  to 
the  work  of  destruction  they  had  already  caused;  for  the  work 
of  ruin  and  waste  went  on  until  in  1837  every  bank  in  the  nation 
suspended  specie  payment  and  failed,  and  our  whole  country 
was  in  financial  ruin.  This  party  did  not  even  suggest  a  system 
of  banking  or  finance  in  which  the  people  had  any  confidence; 
nor  have  they  ever  been  able  to  gain  the  people's  confidence  in 
this  respect.  Whenever  that  party  has  been  in  power  ruin  has 
followed,  as  the  history  of  1837,  I^57,  and  1860  proves." 

In  1888,  in  our  own  fair  city,  Mr.  Holmes  voted  with  great 
pleasure  for  General  Benjamin  Harrison,  and  attended  his  in- 
auguration. Mr.  D.  G.  Holmes  is  an  ardent  worker  for  the  cause 
of  education  and  reform,  and  is  one  of  the  foremost  active  work- 
ers in  every  good  cause. 


GEORGE    HOLT, 

Born  April  i6th,  1818,  in  Milford,  Hillsboro  county,  New  Hamp- 
shire. His  first  vote  for  president  was  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  for  Wm. 
Henry  Harrison.  The  campaign  in  Lowell  was  a  lively  one,  and 
great  interest  and  enthusiasm  was  manifested  by  the  Whig  party 
for  an  honest  government  and  tariff  protection.  A  large  cam- 
paign gathering  of  Whigs  at  Concord,  Mass.,  was  held  July  4th, 
1840,  and  it  was  estimated  that  one  hundred  thousand  people 
were  on  the  old  battle-ground.  There  was  a  grand  parade  of 
military,  with  bands  of  music,  and  Whig  clubs  from  all  over  the 


D.  G.  HOLMES. 


134  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

State  participated.  Eminent  Whigs  gave  splendid  speeches, 
showing  the  great  benefit  of  a  protective  tariff  for  our  manufac- 
turers, and  the  particular  fitness  of  Wm.  Henry  Harrison  as  the 
standard  bearer  of  the  Whig  party. 

At  Lowell  the  Whig  party  had  a  log  cabin  thirty  feet  long 
and  twplve  feet  wide,  furnished  with  steel  traps,  live  .coons,  and 
two  barrels  of  hard  cider.  The  cabin  was  put  on  trucks  and 
drawn  by  forty  horses  to  Concord,  Mass.,  seventeen  miles  from 
Lowell.  It  was  a  clear,  pleasant  day,  and  all  had  a  grand  good 
time.  He  has  always  voted  for  the  Whig  party  until  it  dis- 
banded, or  merged  into  the  Republican  party,  as  he  loved  free- 
dom for  all  the  people — black  or  white — and  liberty  of  life  and 
the  pursuit  of  happiness  in  its  broadest  sense.  He  joined  the  Re- 
publican party,  believing  it  would  carry  out  all  its  promises  for 
an  honest  ballot,  and  a  right  to  have  it  counted  without  fear  or 
intimidation,  and  has  voted  for  all  candidates  for  president  of 
the  Republican  party,  including  Benjamin  Harrison. 


JOHN  D.  HOWE, 

Born  February  u,  1798;  removed  to  York  State  in  1835, 
from  there  to  Iowa,  stopping  in  Illinois  on  the  way  one  year,  but 
lived  in  Iowa  twenty-four  years.  He  then  came  to  Chicago,  and 
is  now  living  at  53  University  Place.  His  occupation  has  been  a 
country  blacksmith.  His  age  is  now  ninety-one  years,  and  he  is 
able  to  take  his  rations. 


THOS.  HUBBARD, 

One  of  the  oldest  members  of  the  Club,  born  at  Brimfield,  Hamp- 
den  county,  Mass.,  June  I2th,  1802,  casting  his  first  vote  in  1824 
for  John  Q.  Adams,  at  Brimfield,  and  in  1836-' 40  for  Wm.  Henry 
Harrison  at  the  same  place,  and  for  every  Whig  and  Republican 
candidate  to  and  including  Abraham  Lincoln  in  1860,  at  the  same 
pretty  New  England  town.  In  1864  we  found  Mr.  Hubbard 
voting  for  Lincoln  in  Chicago,  and  at  every  presidential 
election  since  that  date  he  has  voted  a  straight  "  Grand  Old 
Party"  ticket,  voting  for  Gen.  Harrison  in  1888,  in  the  Fourth 
Ward  of  our  own  city — an  honorable  man  and  a  good  citizen. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  135 

JOHN  HUNTINGTON, 

A  New  Englander,  who  lived  in  Mobile,  Alabama,  when  he  cast 
his  vote  in  1836^40  for  Gen.  Harrison.  Born  in  the  town  of  Ben- 
ningtown,  Hillsborough  county,  N.  H.,  July  24th,  1813.  Naturally 
the  place  of  a  New  Englander  from  1856  to  1865  was  north  of 
the  Mason  and  Dixon  line,  and  Mr.  Huntington  came  as  far 
north  as  Chicago,  where  he  voted  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison  in 
1888. 


H.  H.  HUSTED. 

I  was  born  June  /th,  1813,  at  Danbury,  Fairfield  county,  Conn. 
Having  been  born  during  the  war,  when  Gen.  Wm.  H.  Harrison 
was  well  thought  of,  by  my  grandfather  I  was  given  the  name  of 
Harrison.  In  April,  1835,  I  ^e^  Connecticut  for  New  York  City, 
being  then  about  twenty-two  years  of  age.  I  remained  there  un- 
til June,  1843,  when  I  came  to  Chicago.  In  1836  I  voted  the 
Whig  ticket,  consequently  voted  for  Gen.  Harrison  for  president. 
In  1838  I  voted  for  and  helped  a  little  to  make  W.  H.  Seward 
Governor  of  the  State  of  New  York.  In  1840  I  voted  for  Gen. 
W.  H.  Harrison — "Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too,  and  with  him  we 
beat  Little  Van,"  and  now,  forty-eight  years  later,  I  have  voted 
for  the  grandson,  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison,  with  whose  election 
I  am  well  pleased.  I  have  always  voted  the  Whig  or  Republi- 
can ticket  in  all  national  elections.  In  local  elections  I  may  have 
scratched  sometimes,  though  I  am  not  quite  sure  of  that. 


BRICE  VIERS  HUSTON 

Was  born  in  Londenderry,  Guernsey  county,  Ohio,  June  26th, 
1821;  moved  to  Illinois  in  1831,  via.  the  Keel  Boat  to  Cairo,  hence 
towed  to  St.  Louis,  hence  to  Hennepin  on  the  steamer  "  Winne- 
bago."  His  uncle  was  United  States  Senator,  and  had  sent  for 
young  Brice  in  order  that  he  might  attain  school  advantages,  but 
being  a  politician,  and  presumably  desiring  to  view  political 
opinions  with  the  youngster,  he  took  him  through  the  campaign 
of  1840  in  Ohio,  Pennsylvania,  West  Virginia,  and  "Old"  Vir- 


136  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

ginia.  He  was  at  the  inauguration  of  Gen.  William  Henry  Har- 
rison, and  was  the  youngest  and  best  known  Whig  in  that 
campaign.  He  did  not  vote  for  Gen.  Harrison  by  reason  of  his 
age,  but  has  a  very  distinct  remembrance  of  the  "  coon  skins, 
hard  cider,  and  log  cabins."  He  voted  for  Henry  Clay,  and  took 
active  part  in  the  campaign  as  against  Allen  G.  Thurman  and 
other  "  free  trade"  speakers.  On  the  occasion  of  Gen.  La  Fay- 
ette's  visit  to  the  United  States  he  was  the  guest  of  the  parents 
of  Mr.  Huston,  as  was  also  Gen.  Jackson  during  a  portion  of 
each  year  of  his  term  as  president.  He  is  personally  acquainted 
with  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison,  and  worked  hard  for  his  election, 
.and  was  "  as  happy  as  a  coon  over  the  result." 


WILLIAM  HYDE. 

This  gentleman  probably  ranks  as  the  second  oldest  man  of 
the  Tippecanoe  Club,  having  been  born  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  ^th 
of  February,  1799,  and  was  perfectly  familiar  with  the  incidents 
relating  to  the  War  of  1812,  having  worked — in  connection  with 
other  school  boys — on  the  forts  then  in  construction,  and  the 
ladies  in  the  town  furnishing  their  luncheons.  As  Mr.  Hyde  re- 
marks: "We  were  all  Revolutionary  boys,  and  were  in  for  the 
war,"  subsequently  proving  his  war-like  nature  by  joining  the 
various  military  companies.  In  1824  he  voted  for  John  Q. 
Adams,  taking  an  active  part  in  the  campaign.  In  1826  he  re- 
moved to  New  York,  where  he  voted  for  Gen.  William  Henry 
Harrison  in  1836  and  1840,  taking  part  in  all  the  celebrations, 
parades,  and  lending  his  voice  in  swelling  the  Tippecanoe  songs 
-of  the  day.  Some  years  after  Mr.  Hyde  removed  to  Chicago, 
where  he  has  since  resided.  He  is  at  present  engaged  in  prepar- 
ing a  history  of  Boston  as  it  was  in  1815,  and  his  former  famil- 
iarity with  the  subject  will  undoubtedly  make  the  work  an  inter- 
esting one.  Mr.  Hyde  cast  his  last  vote  in  Lake  View,  Nov.  6th, 
1888,  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison,  informing  the  Board  that 
"  though  ninety  years  of  age  he  had  always  voted  the  Whig  and 
Republican  ticket;  knew  the  Democracy  like  a  book,  and  had  no 
use  for  it." 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  137 

WM.  W.  1NGRAHAM, 

A  native  of  the  "  Green  Mountain  State,"  having  first  seen  the 
light  of  day  in  the  town  of  Essex,  Chittenden  county,  April, 
1818,  and  it  was  in  this  same  town  where,  in  1840,  he  showed  his 
Whig  sense  by  voting  for  Gen.  Wm.  H.  Harrison.  Soon  after 
this  election  he  removed  to  Burlington,  Vt,  where  he  engaged  in 
business  as  millwright,  machinist,  and  mechanical  engineer, 
coming  to  Chicago  on  a  visit  in  1843,  anQl  permanently  locating 
here  in  1846,  and  has  resided  here  ever  since,  being  a  voter  in 
1888  for  the  grandson  of  his  first  choice  for  president.  Mr.  In- 
graham  comes  from  good  old  stock — his  grandfather,  for  whom 
he  was  named,  having  been  a  Continental  Volunteer  during  the 
Revolutionary  War,  serving  seven  years,  and  his  father,  Chester 
Ingraham,  doing  Uncle  Sam  good  service  in  the  War  of  1812. 
This  is  nothing  very  extraordinary,  however,  for  old  Vermont 
has  always  turned  out  soldiers  and  heroes,  and  there  are  many 
whose  proudest  boast  is  that  they  are  from  the  old  "  Green 
Mountain  State." 

FREDRICK    INGERSOLL 

Was  born  in  the  town  of  Vernon,  county  of  Oneida,  State  of  New 
York,  on  the  I5th  day  of  December,  1804.  He  was  educated  in 
the  common  school,  but  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  by  reason  of  his 
love  of  music,  he  gave  attention  to  its  studies.  He  changed  his 
residence  to  the  village  of  Vernon,  where  he  entered  upon  the 
mercantile  business,  which  he  continued  for  ten  years.  For  more 
than  twenty  years  he  taught  vocal  music,  and  was  considered 
one  of  the  best  leaders  of  church  choirs  in  central  New  York. 

In  1841  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Oneida  County 
Agricultural  Society,  and  for  ten  years  held  the  office  of  one  of 
the  Directors  of  the  Agricultural  County  Board  of  Executive 
Officers;  and  for  two  years  was  the  treasurer  of  the  Society.  In 
association  with  Hon.  Levi  T.  Marshall,  he  drafted  the  by-laws 
of  the  County  Society,  which,  afterward,  were  also  adopted  by 
the  Agricultural  Society  of  the  State.  He  was  chairman  of  the 
committee  on  Devon  blooded  stock.  He  was  instrumental  in 
organizing  the  Agricultural  Society  of  the  town  of  Vernon. 


138  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

Soon  after  arriving  at  the  age  of  sixty,  he  moved  to  the  town 
of  Phelps,  where  he  set  out  and  cultivated  a  vineyard  of  over 
three  hundred  plants  with  eminent  success,  and  his  example  was 
soon  followed  by  hundreds  of  farmers  living  near  and  around 
those  charming  lakes  in  western  New  York. 

His  wife,  Susan  S.  Ingersoll  (now deceased),  was  a  highly  cul- 
tivated lady,  and  in  a  moment  of  surprise,  in  1844,  was  requested 
to  improvise  an  agricultural  song,  on  the  delivery  of  an  agricul- 
tural address  in  the  native  town  of  her  husband,  to  be  sang  by 
him  on  the  occasion.  She  at  once  complied,  and  in  a  few  mo- 
ments presented  the  following: 

"  Ye  farmers,  one  and  all,  raise  your  standard  high 

With  one  united  force; 
Let  onward,  onward  be  your  cry, 
Though  toilsome  be  your  course. 
****** 

"  Bright  science  on  your  path  shall  shine, 

Truth  shed  her  glorious  ray, 
And  joy,  and  hope,  and  love  divine 
Lead  on  to  endless  day. 


CHAS.  P.  JACKSON 

Was  born  June  4tn,  1820,  at  Sheldon,  Genesee  county  (now  Wy- 
oming), New  York.  Was  not  old  enough  to  vote  for  William  H. 
Harrison  in  1840,  and  was  sent  as  a  delegate  to  the  Fort  Meigs 
celebration  of  the  victory  of  1840.  In  1844  he  lived  in  Wabash 
county,  Indiana,  being  engaged  in  the  railroad  business,  the  com- 
pany being  known  as  the  "  Underground  Railroad,"  in  which 
calling  he  was  most  expert,  and  did  splendid  service.  As  a  boy 
his  tendencies  were  toward  the  Democratic  party.  In  1838  he 
was  shown  a  part  of  the  press  destroyed  by  the  slavery  faction  at 
Alton,  111.,  and  had  previously  read  of  the  killing  of  Mr.  Love- 
joy.  These  circumstances  influenced  and  changed  his  sentiments, 
and  ever  after  he  used  every  legitimate  measure  against  slavery. 
Voted  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison  at  Chicago,  and  feels  quite 
proud  of  the  fact. 


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JOHN  JAMES. 

Born  in  Truxton,  on  the  I3th  of  July,  1806;  removed  to  Bell- 
ville,  N.  J.,  in  1828,  and  engaged  in  mercantile  business;  moved 
to  Utica,  Macomb  county,  Mich.,  1831,  and  engaged  in  the  same 
business.  In  1848  he  moved  to  Detroit,  Mich.,  and  engaged  in 
wholesale  grocery  trade,  and  then  changed  his  trade  to  hardware. 
In  1877  he  moved  to  Hyde  Park,  having  retired  from  business, 
where  he  still  resides.  Always  a  Whig  and  Republican. 


CYRUS  JONES 

Was  born  December  I5th,  1805,  in  Genesee  county,  New  York. 
In  politics  he  has  ever  been  a  staunch  Whig  and  Republican, 
casting  his  first  ballot  for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison  in  1836, 
in  Tippecanoe  county,  Indiana,  where  he  then  lived;  and  again 
(with  more  success)  in  1840.  In  1888  he  voted  for  Gen.  Benja- 
min Harrison,  making  two  out  of  three  successful  votes  for  the 
Harrisons. 


WILLIAM    KEELING 

Was  born  May  12,  1814,  in  Derbay  Line,  Vermont.  Moved  from 
Highgate  Vermont  to  New  York  City;  stayed  there  several 
years;  moved  from  New  York  City  to  Riverhead,  Long  Island, 
and  married  Eliza  Ann  Brooks,of  Middletown,  Connecticut,in  1839. 
Voted  for  William  Henry  Harrison  in  1840.  Moved  from  River- 
head  in  1841  to  Middletown,  Connecticut.  His  wife  died  in  1861. 
They  had  five  children,  three  boys  and  two  girls — two  boys  died. 
Moved  to  Amboy  in  1862;  to  Chicago  in  1866;  is  a  carpenter  by 
trade.  He  has  one  son  and  two  daughters — Mary  J.  Knight,  living 
in  Chicago;  Alice  Ward,  living  in  New  York  City,  and  George  F. 
Keeling,  living  in  Council  Hill,  111.  His  son  served  four  years 
and  a  half  in  the  army — Twenty-fourth  Massachusetts,  Company 
F.  Voted  for  Benjamin  Harrison  in  1888— -not  guilty  of  having 
voted  the  Democratic  ticket  at  any  time,  and  now  lives  at  215 
Hermitage  Avenue. 


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JOHN  M.  KENNEDY. 

In  1836  I  became  a  voter,  and  one  of  my  neighbors — a  school- 
mate of  Martin  Van  Buren — and  I,  made  a  trade.  He  and  one 
son,  then  a  voter,  with  another  son  that  would  be  a  voter  in  1840, 
would  all  vote  for  the  next  Whig  candidate,  no  matter  who  he 
might  be,  so  in  1840  the  three  voted  with  me  for  William  Henry 
Harrison  in  Little  Rock,  now  Kendale  county,  then  a  part  of 
Kane  county;  my  last  vote  was  cast  for  Benjamin  Harrison.  Was 
a  Whig  from  boyhood  till  the  free  soil  party,  and  from  that  a 
Republican,  dyed  in  the  wool. 


JOHN  KILE, 

The  son  of  the  Green  Mountain  State,  having  been  born  in  Ben- 
nington  county,  October  28,  1818,  removing  with  his  parents  in 
1819  to  Monroe  county,  N.  Y.  In  1835  located  in  Will  county, 
111.,  where,  in  1840,  he  cast  his  first  vote  for  Gen.  William  Henry 
Harrison,  subsequently  removing  to  Chicago  and  performing  the 
same  service  for  the  grandson  in  1888. 


ISAAC  C.  KILGORE 

Was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Ohio,  on  the  4th  of  September,  1817. 
His  parents  emigrated  from  Kentucky  to  Ohio,  when  Isaac  was 
six  years  old.  He,  with  his  parents,  a  few  years  later,  removed 
to  Illinois  and  settled  down  to  farming  in  McHenry  county. 
His  first  vote  was  cast  for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison  in  1840. 
He  was  a  Whig  until  that  party  was  merged  into  the  Republican 
party  in  1855-6.  Has  always  been  proud  to  vote  and  cast  with 
the  Republican  party,  and  cast  his  last  vote  for  Gen.  Benjamin 
Harrison  on  the  6th  of  November,  1888. 


'JOHN    KING,  Jr. 

Was  born  in  Palmer,  Massachusetts,  April  5,  1805,  and  resided 
there  till  twenty-one  years  of  age;  then  in  Monson,  Mass,  one 
year;  in  North  Adams,  Berkshire  county,  seven  years;  in  New 


OLD  TIPPECANOE  CLUB,  CHICAGO.  14! 

York  City  five  years,  and  settled  in  Chicago  in  1843  UP  to  the 
present  time,  March,  1889.  He  voted  in  New  York  City  in  1840 
for  William  Henry  Harrison,  and  attended  his  inauguration, 
March  4,  1841,  in  Washington,  D.  C.;  also  his  funeral  procession 
in  New  York  City,  in  April,  1841.  Was  the  son  of  John  King,  Sr. 
and  Bessy  Brown  King,  of  Palmer,  Hampden  county,  Mass.,  and 
was  a  born  federalist  and  protection  Whig  to  this  day. 


ISAAC  D.  KINNE. 

I  was  born  at  Kirmes  Four  Corners,  town  of  Hannibal,  Oswego 
county,  State  of  New  York.  At  an  early  period  of  my  life,  I, 
with  my  brother  and  uncle,  was  put  to  teaming — about  three 
years  in  all.  In  January,  1832,  my  father,  with  his  family  of  eight 
children,  moved  to  Ohio,  to  settle  on  land  opposite  Toledo. 
We  went  on  runners  to  Buffalo,  then  by  wagon.  The  whole 
country  was  a  muck-hole — snow,  mud  and  clay  was  our  daily 
treat,  arriving  at  Sandusky  at  night  when  it  began  to  rain.  We 
laid  by  one  day,  then  began  our  march  through  that  what  was 
then  called  the  Black  Swamp — muck  eighteen  inches  deep.  Snow 
ten  inches  deep  made  traveling  slow — sometimes  it  seemed  as 
though  there  was  no  bottom — often  had  to  double  teams.  After 
trials  and  privations  for  five  days  and  five  nights,  we  reached 
Perrysburg,  on  the  Maumee  River,  thirty  miles  from  Sandusky, 
then  we  made  one  day's  journey  on  the  river  to  the  land  selected 
opposite  Toledo.  Father  built  a  fine  log  house,  intending  to 
make  it  a  home,  but  changed  his  mind,  and  in  July  moved  up  the 
Maumee  River  twenty  miles,  and  located  near  Waterville.  The 
family  were  put  on  board  what  was  then  called  a  perogue — a 
large  canoe — the  teams  and  goods  went  the  road.  A  boat-ride 
of  about  twenty  hours  brought  us  to  our  distination.  Here  a 
house  must  be  built,  land  cleared,  a  farm  opened;  Indians  were 
plenty,  but  quiet.  The  hardships  of  this  new  venture  of  two 
years,  and  my  father's  declining  health,  he  thought  best  to  make 
one  more  venture,  so  we  moved  to  Illinois,  having  heard  much 
of  Illinois  prairies.  We  started  late  in  the  fall  of  '34,  with  two 
yoke  of  oxen,  two  teams  of  horses,  one  saddle  horse  and  two 


142  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

milch  cows.  We  encountered  many  difficulties,  bad  roads  and  no 
roads,  mud  ice  and  snow;  many  times  our  rations  were  short,  and 
we  began  to  turn  our  eyes  towards  the  land  of  our  birth,  and,  like 
the  children  of  Israel,  longed  for  the  flesh  pots  of  Egypt,  after 
one  difficulty  after  the  other  was  overcome.  We  struck  sands 
near  Michigan  City — a  day  and  night  here  to  recruit,  and  replen- 
ish our  stock  of  provisions.  Here  R.  K.  Swift  passed  us  on  his 
way  to  Chicago — in  after  years  he  became  banker  in  Chicago — 
was  prominent  in  quelling  the  whisky-riot.  Our  train  left  Michi- 
gan City  at  an  early  hour,  making  our  way  along  beach  and 
sand  hills,  and  gulches  on  the  lake  shore.  About  three  or  four 
o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  the  king-bolt  of  one  wagon  broke  and  I 
was  sent  on  horseback  to  Michigan  City  for  repairs.  The  smith 
was  out,  but  came  soon  and  repaired  the  break,  and  at  twelve 
o'clock  was  on  my  way  up  along  the  beach  in  search  of  the 
wagons.  It  was  about  sun-rise  when  I  made  camp.  A  little  refresh- 
ment, and  the  repairs  completed,  we  commenced  anew  our  fear- 
ful journey.  This  day  was  dry  sand,  and  slow  and  hard  work  for 
teams.  At  night  we  took  to  the  pines  for  shelter.  During  the 
night  the  wind  changed  and  blew  off  the  lake,  and  we  were 
obliged  to  get  higher  up  the  sand  hills,  but  left  the  wagons.  In 
the  morning  the  sand  was  six  inches  deep  over  felloes  of  the 
wheels,  and  water  to  the  box  of  the  wagons.  By  shoveling  and 
doubling  teams,  we  got  liberated,  and  about  noon  started  again 
to  try  the  unknown;  this  day  the  sand  was  wet  and  made  fair 
progress.  Thus  far,  four  days  and  five  nights  we  were  tossed  to 
and  fro,  wet  and  hungry,  and  far  from  friends  or  home.  Fifth 
day  bright  us  to  the  Calumet  river,  where  we  got  the  first  hay 
for  ten  days  for  our  teams.  Apparently  a  large  Indian  settle- 
ment was  once  here,  remnants  of  huts,  etc.,  a  large  burying 
ground,  also.  Each  grave  was  fenced  around  with  poles,  two  feet 
wide  and  six  feet  long.  Rested  one  day;  crossed  the  Calumet  on 
a  sand  bar, — water  three  feet  deep.  After  crossing  the  river,  the 
bank  was  higher,  so  kept  away  from  the  lake.  Here  was  the 
first  view  we  got  of  the  Illinois  prairies.  This  day  was  spent  in 
an  effort  to  get  some  game,  as  our  provisions  had  given  out,  and 
night  found  us  along  the  shore,  some  bushes  for  shelter,  and 


OLD   TIPPECANOE   CLUB,    CHICAGO.  143 

hunger  increasing — no  house  in  sight.  Next  day  we  captured 
some  prairie  chickens,  and  along  in  the  afternoon  we  passed 
through  what  seemed  to  have  been  a  wheat  field ;  it  was  the  soldier's 
farm,  and  belonged  to  Uncle  Sam,  at  Ft.  Dearborn.  We  called 
at  the  fort,  but  got  no  relief.  We  then  made  our  way  to  the 
south  branch  of  the  river,  crossed  to  the  west  bank,  where  there 
was  a  log  cabin.  Near  the  door  stood  the  lady  of  the  house.  It 
was  Mrs.  Indian  Robinson.  She  was  wrapped  in  a  heavy  blue 
blanket,  and  wore  a  large  plug-hat  with  three  wide  silver  bands 
around  it.  I  could  speak  a  little  of  her  language,  and  asked  her 
if  she  could  give  us  a  little  of  anything  to  eat.  She  gave  us 
liberally  of  vension;  we  camped  for  the  night;  it  was  windy  and 
cold.  Next  morning,  father  made  the  acquaintance  of  Mr. 
Robinson,  who  was  a  white  man;  father  was  well  acquainted  with 
his  brother  at  Maumee  City.  One  day  in  Chicago — a  very  small 
town  at  that  time.  On  the  north  side  of  the  river  lay  canoes  as 
thick  as  they  could  be;  up  the  north  branch,  on  the  west  side, 
was  a  large  tract  of  land  that  had*been  cultivated  in  corn,  by  the 
Indians.  After  a  day's  rest,  we  made  another  start.  After  travel- 
ing all  day  in  grass  to  our  hips,  water  ten  inches  deep,  and  a  little 
ice,  we  made  Whisky  Point.  Here  we  got  a  little  meal  and  had 
a  feast  of  corn  bread.  The  next  day,  at  four  o'clock  in  the  after- 
noon, we  got  to  the  Desplaines  river;  here  were  plenty  of  Indians, 
but  quiet;  we  camped  for  the  night.  In  early  morn  we  started 
for  Meacham's  Grove,  twelve  miles  away,  which  we  made  late  in 
the  evening.  Coming  to  the  east  end  of  the  grove,  we  found 
some  hay  stacks,  and  camped  along  side,  remaining  two  days.  In 
the  meantime  father  visited  the  two  Meacham  families,  Noah 
Stevens,  Harry  Woodworth,  and  Elias  Maynard.  Father  took  a 
claim  along  Salt  Creek,  with  a  grove  of  about  one  hundred  acres. 
Mr.  Maynard  offered  us  home  with  him  until  we  could  build, 
which  we  gladly  accepted.  Father  and  myself  went  to  work 
chopping  logs  the  second  day.  A  man  and  three  nearly  grown 
boys  came  and  ordered  us  off,  saying,  we  could  not  jump  his 
claim,  and  if  we  did  not  want  to  get  hurt,  to  leave  at  once. 
Father  knowing  it  to  be  a  dangerous  business,  left,  going  to  the 
settlers  and  reporting.  They  advised  him  to  go  ahead,  that  the 


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man  was  claiming  all  the  county  and  scaring  settlers  out. 
Father  commenced  cutting  logs  again,  and  again  appeared  the 
man  and  his  boys,  each  armed  with  a  gun,  and  warned  father  off 
his  alleged  claim,  or  he  would  shoot  him.  Father  had  his  ax  in 
his  hand,  and  told  me  to  get  my  gun.  I  did  so.  Father  walked 
up  to  him  and  told  him  the  settlers  were  with  him  and  he  would 
not  leave,  and  he  must  go  away  or  he  would  get  hurt,  and  after 
little  parlying  for  a  little  money,  they  left,  and  we  were  troubled 
no  more.  Many  hardships  had  to  be  encountered  in  settling  the 
prairies  of  Illinois. 

Politics  had  little  place  at  first  in  people's  mind.  But  when 
the  campaign  of  1840  opened,  people  began  to  divide  and  get 
warmed  up.  Long  John  Wentworth  was  the  Democratic  shining 
light.  He  traveled  long  and  late.  Democratic  whisky  was 
plenty  and  cheap.  The  Democrats  at  the  east  end  of  Meachan's 
grove,  at  Alansing  Watson's  Hotel,  got  a  large  hickory  tree  and 
set  it  up  naming  it  "  Old  Hickory,"  pickled  it  in  whisky  and 
named  "  Old  Hickory  Forever."  To  be  a  Democrat  then  was 
popular.  My  people  were  all  Democrats.  To  be  a  Whig  was  to 
be  despised,  insulted,  abused  and  humiliated.  The  hickory  pole 
was  surrounded,  sung  to,  praised,  etc.  They  marched  around  it, 
yelling  with  fury  for  the  hero  of  Democracy.  A  few  Whigs  had 
the  log  cabin  and  hard  cider  songs.  Some  of  my  choice  acquaint- 
ances were  Whigs.  William  Henry  Harrison  was  an  Indian 
fighter.  His  many  victories  over  the  Indians  was  then  a  great 
honor  to  the  man. 

My  sympathies  rather  increased  than  diminished  in  favor  of 
the  Whigs.  The  Kansas  move  to  extend  slavery  I  was  strongly 
opposed  to — all  this  belittled  Democracy  in  my  view.  Then 
came  the  Lovejoy  calamity,  which  so  imbittered  me  against 
slavery  and  Democracy — its  twin  brother — I  have  left  them  to 
their  idols — whiskey  and  office!  Then  the  John  Brown  affair  had 
its  influence.  I  was  active  in  the  campaign  for  Fremont;  then 
Lincoln.  Was  at  the  wigwam  when  he  was  nominated,  and  re- 
joiced; and  also  mourned  when  he  was  killed.  I  have  participa- 
ted in  all  the  campaigns  since  1856 — have  seen  all  of  the  presi- 
dents except  Arthur  and  our  Ben.  Harrison.  Since  the  formation 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  145 

of  the  Republican  party  I  have  never  failed  to  improve  the  op- 
portunity of  voting  the  full  Republican  ticket.  Having  heard 
Elaine  speak  many  times  I  admired  him.  When  he  was  a  candi- 
date I  went  my  whole  strength  for  him — was  always  marching  in 
line.  When  it  became  a  fact  that  Elaine  could  not  get,  or  did 
not  want  the  nomination,  and  Harrison  was  the  man,  then  I  gave 
him  up.  I  was  at  the  convention  when  Harrison  was  nominated, 
and  such  a  howl  was  never  before  known: 

My  first  vote  was  cast  for  William  Henry  Harrison,  of  Tippe- 
canoe  fame,  with  log  cabins  and  hard  cider — the  grandfather  of 
Ben.  Harrison.  My  last  vote,  and  the  votes  of  my  five  sons, 
were  cast  for  Ben.  Harrison.  We  all  belonged  and  marched  with 
the  several  clubs  [of  the  city.  We  all  enjoyed  it,  and  I  felt  as 
though  I  was  doing  God's  service.  Now  I  hope  I,  or  my  child- 
ren, will  never  have  cause  to  regret  the  interest  we  took  and  felt 
in  the  campaign  which  elected  Ben.  Harrison — hoping  he  will 
rule  in  the  fear  of  God,  give  equal  justice  to  all,  guard  our  shores 
from  foreign  paupers  and  uncongenial  emigration,  command  the 
nations  of  the  earth  to  honor  and  respect  our  nation,  our  people, 
and  our  flag.  

CAPT.  JAMES  LANING, 

Late  U.  S.  Navy,  was  born  May  igth,  A.  D.,  1821,  in  the  village 
of  Bridgeport,  Fayette  county,  Penn.  Educated  in  the  village 
school.  His  father,  John  Laning,  being  a  practical  mechanic* 
engaged  in  cabinet-making,  house  carpentering,  and  at  a  later 
period  built  and  operated  the  first  steam  saw-mill  (above  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,)  on  the  Monongahela  river,  thus  affording  the  son  an 
opportunity  to  acquire  a  thorough  knowledge  of  these  trades. 
Being  a  natural  born  mechanic,  he  had  by  the  time  he  reached 
the  age  of  eighteen  years,  mastered  the  details  of  business  as  de- 
veloped in  a  country  village,  and  was  placed  by  his  father  as  an 
indentured  apprentice  in  a  large  cabinet  shop  in  the  city  of  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.,  where  he  served  until  he  was  nearly  twenty-one  years 
of  age  in  completing  his  education  as  a  cabinet-maker.  During 
this  period,  viz.  1839  till  1842,  the  Tippecanoe  campaign  of  1840 
occurred.  Being  only  nineteen  years  old  of  course  he  could  not 


146  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

vote,  but  inheriting  from  his  father  a  strong  feeling  of  antagon- 
ism to  so-called  Democracy,  and  thoroughly  trained  in  the  school 
of  Clay  and  Webster,  he  threw  his  whole  soul  into  the  political 
cauldron,  and  helped  with  youthful  ardor  to  build  log  cabins, 
sing  campaign  songs,  and  roll  the  ball  for  Old  Tippecanoe,  and 
afterward  had  the  extreme  pleasure  of  standing  near  General 
William  Henry  Harrison  and  listening  to  and  applauding  his  ad- 
dress delivered  from  the  steps  in  front  of  the  Pittsburgh  Hotel, 
when  on  his  way  from  his  home  in  North  Bend  to  Washington, 
to  be  inaugurated  president  of  the  United  States.  It  was  during 
the  campaign  of  1840  that  the  shot-gun  policy  was  first  intro- 
duced into  politics  (but  for  a  very  different  purpose  than  that 
which  has  characterized  its  use  in  late  years),  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  being  in  an  humble  way  a  party  concerned,  a  brief  des- 
cription of  which  may  prove  interesting.  A  member  of  Congress 
from  the  Cumberland  district  of  Maryland,  whose  name  was 
"'  Shriver,"  in  a  Whig  speech  gave  an  allegorical  representation 
of  the  Whig  party  as  a  rolling  ball,  which  was  rolling  with  irre- 
sistable  velocity  over  all  the  States,  crushing  out  Democracy  and 
Loco  Focoism,  and  arousing  the  people  to  a  sense  of  duty,  and 
leading  them  to  vote  for  Old  Tippecanoe.  His  father  being  a 
2ealous  Whig,  as  well  as  a  decided  anti-slavery  advocate,  con- 
ceived the  idea  of  typifying  Mr.  Shrivers'  allegory,  by  building  a 
rolling  ball  to  be  used  in  the  campaign.  It  was  about  fourteen 
feet  in  diameter,  and  had  a  long  pole  or  axle  passing  through  its 
centre,  and  projecting  several  feet  on  either  side,  with  which  to 
roll  it,  and  a  rim  like  a  tuyere  around  the  other  centre,  on  which 
it  was  rolled.  It  was  frame-work  covered  with  canvas,  on  which 
was  painted  the  names  of  the  presidential  candidates,  extracts 
from  Whig  principles  as  embodied  in  the  platform  of  the  party, 
amongst  which  were  "  Protection  to  Home  Industry,"  "  A  Sound 
National  Currency,"  "  No  More  Slave  Territory,"  "  Slavery  is 
Sectional,"  "  Freedom  is  National,"  and  prominent  among  the 
mottos  was  a  tribute  to  "  Shriver,"  of  Cumberland,  who  first  con- 
ceived the  notion  of  putting  this  great  ball  in  motion.  This  ball 
was  a  decided  success,  and  its  appearance  created  the  wildest 
enthusiasm.  It  was  rolled  all  'round  in  Fayette  and  Green  coun- 


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ties,  and  ferried  across  the  Monongahela  river  to  Washington 
county,  and  on  one  occasion  it  was  placed  on  a  flat-boat  and 
poled  and  towed  up  the  river  fifty  miles  to  Morgantown,  Vir- 
ginia, and  rolled  at  a  convention  there.  Amongst  the  prominent 
speakers  in  that  campaign  was  the  Hon.  Andrew  Stewart  (known 
as  Tariff  Andy),  of  Uniontown,  Pa.,  and  the  Hon.  Thomas  M.  T. 
McKennan,  of  Washington,  Pa.  (afterward  a  member  of  Presi- 
dent Fillmore's  cabinet),  and  the  Hon.  Walter  Forward,  of  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.  The  national  turnpike  road  extending  from  Wheel- 
ing, Virginia,  to  Cumberland,  Md.,  passed  through  Brownsville, 
Pa.,  and  members  of  Congress  from  the  South  took  that  route  by 
stage-coach  to  and  from  the  capitol  at  Washington,  D.  C.  Upon 
the  adjournment  of  Congress  that  summer,  the  southern  mem- 
bers, amongst  whom  were  Clay  and  Crittenden,  of  Ky.,  Grundy 
of  Tenn.,  and  Benton,  of  Mo.,  were  passing  through  Brownsville 
on  their  way  South  one  day  when  the  "  ball  was  in  motion " 
through  the  village,  and  the  "  boys,"  in  a  freak  of  fun,  took  after 
the  stage  in  which  the  august  Senator  Benton,  from  Missouri, 
was  riding.  The  Senator  did  not  relish  the  joke,  and  told  the 

driver  to  whip  up  his  team  and  run  away  from  the  d d  thing, 

and  a  lively  race  ensued  for  a  time,  but  the  horses  proved  too 
long  winded  for  the  "boys,"  and  so  the  chase  had  to  be  given  up; 
but  serious  results  were  threatened,  for  the  Democrats  felt  them- 
selves insulted  by  the  action  of  the  Whigs  in  singling  out  Sena- 
tor Benton  for  their  fun,  and  swore  they  would  destroy  the  ball. 
It  was  kept,  when  not  in  use,  in  a  close  shed  built  for  its  protec- 
tion by  his  father,  who  owned  the  land  on  which  it  stood,  and 
the  ball  was  his  own  property,  and  he  determined  to  defend  it,  if 
needs  be,  with  his  life.  So  he  loaded  up  his  double-barrelled 
shot-gun,  and  some  small  arms  he  had,  and  with  his  sons  kept 
watch,  and  waited  the  attack  of  the  Democracy.  But  they,  know- 
ing well  the  character  of  the  man  they  had  to  deal  with,  con- 
cluded that  an  attempt  to  destroy  the  ball  might  lead  to  some 
"  unpleasantness,"  and  so  abandoned  the  attempt,  and  the  old 
ball  rolled  on  till  the  campaign  was  over  and  President  Harrison 
duly  installed  in  the  White  House. 

Ephraim  L.  Elaine,  Esq.,  (father  of  our  most  distinguished 


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statesman,  James  G.  Elaine)  who  lived  just  across  tne  river,  was 
one  of  the  prominent  Whigs  who  helped  to  roll  the  ball,  and 
little  James  G.,  then  nine  years  old,  was  one  of  the  boys  who  ran 
after  and  "  whooped  her  up  from  behind."  The  subject  of  this 
sketch,  also  on  a  visit  at  his  old  home,  took  an  active  part  in 
rolling  and  guarding  the  ball. 

On  completing  his  term  of  apprenticeship  in  Pittsburgh,  he 
again  returned  to  his  old  home  in  Brownsville,  Pa.  His  health 
being  somewhat  impaired  from  hard  work  and  close  confinement 
in  a  shop,  the  working  hours  those  days  being  from  7  A.  M.  to 
9  P.  M., — by  candle-light  in  winter.  As  a  change  of  vocation  he 
took  a  position  as  clerk  in  a  general  merchandise  store  for  a 
year,  and  in  the  fall  of  1843  went  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  with  the 
view  of  making  that  city  his  permanent  home,  taking  with  him 
his  chest  of  tools  to  fall  back  on  in  case  of  necessity.  He  made 
an  effort  to  secure  employment  in  a  mercantile  business,  but 
though  having  good  letters  of  recommendation,  was  not  success- 
ful, and  so  went  to  work  at  his  trade,  with  good  prospects  of  suc- 
cess; but  unfortunately,  then,  as  now,  a  few  designing  men  were 
agitating  the  subject  of  "  more  pay  and  less  work,"  and  soon 
succeeded  in  bringing  on  a  strike  for  higher  wages.  As  winter 
was  approaching,  and  no  good  results  from  such  a  course  prob- 
able, he  opposed  a  strike  with  all  his  might,  and  thus  incurred 
the  enmity  of  the  ringleaders,  who  threatened  him  with  violence. 
The  steamer  "  LehigTi ''  happening  to  pass  Cincinnati  about  this 
time,  with  the  officers  of  which  boat  he  was  well  acquainted,  he 
went  on  board,  and  the  captain,  on  learning  the  situation,  offered 
him  the  position  of  2d  clerk,  at  a  salary  of  $50  per  month,  which 
he  gladly  accepted,  and  so  bid  adieu  to  the  strikers,  and  engaged 
in  a  more  lucrative  employment,  and  learned  on  his  return  from 
St.  Louis  that  they  had  suffered  an  inglorious  defeat,  and  were 
glad  to  resume  work  at  ten  per  cent  discount  from  former  wages. 
On  the  arrival  of  the  "  Lehigh  "  at  Pittsburgh  he  was  promoted 
to  1st  clerk,  at  $75  per  month,  and  continued  to  fill  that  position 
until  September  9th,  A.  D.,  1845,  when  he  was  married  to  Kath- 
arine Emma  Jones,  only  daughter  of  Rees  R.  Jones,  Esq.,  of 
Brownsville,  Pa.,  and  settled  down  to  business  on  shore  in  the 


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grocery  and  tobacco  trades.  Soon  after  resuming  residence  in 
Brownsville  again  he  became  an  active  member  of  Brownsville 
Lodge  and  Encampment  of  I.  O.  of  O.  F.,  passing  through  the 
chairs  and  representing  both  branches  of  the  order  in  the  Grand 
Lodge  and  Encampments  of  Pennsylvania  in  the  sessions  of 
1848-9,  held  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.  He  continued  in 
the  grocery  and  tobacco  trade  until  the  fall  of  1848,  when  he  was 
offered  ist  clerkship  of  the  steamer  "John  Quincy  Adams,"  and 
again  took  to  river  life,  but  the  cholera  breaking  out  that  winter, 
and  proving  so  destructive  to  life  as  well  as  river  business,  he 
again  settled  on  shore  and  engaged  in  steamboat  cabin  building, 
house  carpentering,  and  saw  and  planing  mill  business,  under  the 
firm  of  Laning,  Johnston  &  Co.  He  continued  in  this  business 
until  1854,  when  he  again  changed  to  river  life,  taking  an  interest 
and  ist  clerkship  on  the  steamer  "  W.  A.  Eaves,"  which  he  super- 
intended the  building  of  for  the  Green  River  trade,  as  a  weekly 
packet  between  Louisville  and  Bowling  Green,  Kentucky,  closing 
up  his  business  and  removing  to  Bowling  Green,  Ky.  Remained 
in  this  trade  one  year  only,  when  he  sold  out  his  interest  in  the 
"  W.  A.  Eaves  "  and  removed  to  La  Salle,  111.,  in  April,  1855,  an<^ 
engaged  in  the  iron  and  hardware  trade  until  1859,  when  he  de- 
cided to  remove  to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a 
co-partnership  with  his  uncle,  Mr.  Paul  Laning,  in  the  iron  busi- 
ness; but  unfortunately  for  him,  before  he  was  fairly  settled,  his 
wife  took  sick  and  died,  leaving  him  three  little  daughters,  aged 
five,  ten  and  fourteen,  who  are  at  this  writing  all  living.  With 
these  daughters  and  their  husbands  and  families  he  now  resides, 
alternately.  The  loss  of  his  wife  again  changed  his  plans,  and 
he  again  took  to  river  life  as  ist  clerk  of  steamers  "  Dr.  Kane  " 
and  "  Harmonia,"  plying  in  the  upper  Mississippi  trade,  from 
St.  Louis  to  St.  Paul,  and  was  thus  engaged  when  the  war  broke 
out.  In  the  spring  of  1861  his  boat,  the  "  Dr.  Kane,"  was  sent  to 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  loaded  with  bacon,  corn,  etc.,  supplies  for  the 
Southern  Confederacy,  then  about  to  organize — the  news  of  Jeff 
Davis'  election  to  the  presidency  thereof  reaching  the  boat  on 
the  way  up  the  Cumberland  river,  at  Dover,  and  causing  great 
excitement  on  board,  as  most  of  the  passengers  were  rebels,  and 


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the  boat  being  then  in  the  Confederacy,  they  let  themselves 
loose  and  had  a  regular  jollification  over  it,  whilst  the  Unionists, 
had  to  keep  quiet,  especially  the  officers,  as  they  had  a  cargo  on 
board  which  must  be  delivered  and  freights  collected  before  they 
could  feel  safe  to  avow  their  principles.  As  clerk  of  the  boat  it 
was  his  special  duty  to  look  out  for  that.  He  had  secured  the 

friendship  of  Mr.  B ,  a  rebel  passenger,  and  owner  of  part  of 

the  cargo,  who  kindly  aided  him,  on  arrival  at  Nashville,  to  get 
the  steamboat  agency  to  receive  the  cargo  and  pay  the  freights. 
After  a  good  deal  of  delay  and  financiering  he  succeeded  in  get- 
ting rid  of  the  cargo  and  securing  the  money  for  the  freights,  and 
was  very  glad  to  save  the  steamer,  which  was  allowed  to  return 
in  safety  to  St.  Louis.  Whilst  in  Nashville  he  was  walking  the 
streets  with  his  rebel  friend  B —  -  (afterward  a  prominent  rebel 
officer),  where  he  saw  the  first  rebel  badge — a  rosette  of  white- 
and  red,  the  blue  left  out — one  of  which  B —  -  procured  and 
pinned  on  his  own  lappel,  but  was  kind  enough  not  to  offer  one 
to  the  clerk.  On  his  return  to  St.  Louis  he  found  the  excite- 
ment running  high,  and  the  rebel  camp  Jackson  creating  a  good 
deal  of  uneasiness,  which  culminated  a  few  days  after  in  its  cap- 
ture by  Gen.  Lyon  (then  in  command  of  the  U.  S.  arsenal  near 
St.  Louis),  with  United  States  troops.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  not  long  in  deciding  to  offer  his  services  to  help  maintain 
the  Union,  and  naturally  chose  the  gunboat  service,  where  he 
could  be  most  useful,  and  accordingly,  as  soon  as  the  Western 
Flotilla  was  organized,  presented  himself  to  Commander  Wm.  D. 
Porter,  then  in  temporary  command  (a  few  days  previous  to  the 
arrival  of  Capt.  A.  H.  Foote),  and  his  services  were  accepted,  and 
he  had  the  honor  of  being  the  second  officer  appointed — his 
brother-in-law,  Capt.  Robert  K.  Riley,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  being 
the  first  appointment  made.  These  appointments  were  promptly 
approved  by  Flag  Officer  Foote  on  his  arrival,  and  Riley  and 
Laning  were  selected  by  Commander  Porter  for  First  and  Sec- 
ond Masters  of  his  vessel — the  iron-clad  "  Essex  " — which  after- 
ward made  a  glorious  record  in  the  Mississippi  squadron.  The 
naval  career  thus  began  by  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was,  by  a 
singular  combination  of  circumstances,  perhaps  the  most  varied 


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and  peculiar  of  any  other  officer  in  the  volunteer  service  of  the 
United  States  inland  navy,  a  brief  synopsis  of  which  may  be  in- 
teresting, and  is  herewith  appended: 

Volunteered  September  23d,  A.  D.,  1861,  as  Second  Master  in 
the  Western  Gunboat  Flotilla;  was  assigned  to  duty  on  board  the 
U.  S.  iron-clad  gunboat  "  Essex,"  Commander  Wm.  D.  Porter, 
•U.  S.  N.;  had  command   of  her  battery   in   the   battle  of  Fort 
Henry,  February  6,  1862,  and  had  the  honor  of  firing  the  first 
shot  which  entered  the  breastworks.  Received  such  injuries  from 
concussion,  caused   by  the  rapid   firing  of  the   nine  inch   guns 
under  casements,  as  to  seriously  impair  his  hearing,  and  disqual- 
ify him  for  the  duties  of  a  watch  officer.     Was  promoted  First 
Master  for  meritorious  services  in  the  battle,  and  assigned  to 
shore  duty  in  the  Construction  Department  at  St.  Louis,  being  a 
practical  builder  and  navigator.     Assisted  Commander  Porter  in 
designing  the  iron-clad  ram  gunboats  "  Lafayette  "  and  "  Choc- 
taw,"  and  was  placed  in  charge  of  their  construction.     The  su- 
perintendence of  this  work  involved  immense  labor  and  extraor- 
dinary responsibilities,  the  exigences  of  the   service   requiring 
prosecution  of  the  work  (with  relays  of  men)  day  and  night  and 
Sundays  for  a  period  of  seven  months.  He  completed  both  these 
vessels,  mounted  their  batteries,  took  on  board  their  supplies  and 
outfit,  hoisted  their  flag  when  they  went  into  commission,  and 
delivered  both  at  Cairo,  the   "  Lafayette "   in  January,  and  the 
"Choctaw"  in  April,  1863.     They  were  amongst  the  best  and 
most  formidable  vessels  in  the  squadron,  taking  prominent  part 
in  all  the  heavy  engagements  on  the  lower  Mississippi,  without 
the  loss  of  a  man  killed  in  action.     Their  cost  was  about  $500,- 
OOO  for  both — a  much  less  sum  than  was  expended  on  other  iron- 
clads built  by  contract,  which  proved  much  inferior  in  service. 
In  the  prosecution  of  this  work  he  had  the  entire  confidence  of 
the    army    department,   through   Quartermaster-General   M.  C. 
Meigs,  U.  S.  A.,  in  the  prompt  remission  of  all  funds  asked  for, 
notwithstanding  that  owing  to  the  exigies  of  the  war  the  cost  of 
the  vessels  was  much  beyond  original  estimates.     He  received, 
also,  the  commendations  of  Admiral  D.  D.  Porter,  commanding 
the  squadron,  and  the  konorable  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  who  again 


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promoted  him  to  the  rank  of  Act.  Vol.  Lieut.  Having  completed 
and  delivered  both  vessels  to  the  Admiral  at  Cairo,  111.,  he  was 
ordered  to  return  to  St.  Louis  and  settle  his  accounts,  after 
which  he  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  U.  S.  steamer 
"Rattler"  (tin  clad),  stationed  at  Rodney,  Miss.,  with  command 
of  the  river  from  Grand  Gulf  to  the  foot  of  Rodney  Island. 
Served  in  this  district  until  1864,  when  his  vessel  was  ordered  to 
Davis  Bend,  Miss.,  to  guard  the  "  Indianola,"  one  of  our  most 
formidable  iron-clads,  which  had  run  the  gauntlet  of  the  Vicks- 
burg  batteries  in  the  spring  of  1863,  and  was  captured  by  the 
enemy  and  sunk  at  high  water  on  the  main  land,  just  outside  the 
levee,  on  Joe  Davis'  plantation,  where  she  had  lain  high  and  dry 
for  fifteen  months,  carefully  guarded  and  preserved,  being  very 
valuable,  and  worth  about  $180,000  for  service  again.  She  lay 
just  one  mile  from  the  channel  of  the  river  at  low  water,  and 
seven  hundred  feet  from  the  river  at  an  ordinary  stage  of  high 
water.  Her  weight  was  over  eleven  hundred  tons.  Having 
made  a  survey  of  the  vessel  and  surroundings,  he  decided  that 
she  could  be  launched  and  restored  to  the  service,  and  at  little 
cash  outlay,  and  at  once  submitted  to  the  Admiral  plans  and  es- 
timates, and  volunteered  to  do  the  work.  His  services  were 
promptly  accepted  by  Admiral  Porter,  who  gave  him  carte  blanc 
orders.  He  prepared  a  set  of  launching  ways  at  Mound  City 
navy  yard,  and  with  a  gang  of  carpenters  and  caulkers,  and  a  full 
supply  of  all  needed  materials,  loaded  on  barges,  with  a  tow- 
boat,  ran  the  gauntlet,  five  hundred  and  thirty-five  miles  through 
the  enemy's  country,  arrived  safely  at  the  scene  of  action,  raised 
the  vessel  from  the  ground  with  jack-screws,  repaired,  caulked, 
and  placed  her  on  cradles,  dug  a  basin  in  the  sand  bar  and  laid 
launching  ways,  and  when  the  river  rose  sufficient  to  fill  the  basin, 
launched  her  into  the  basin,  and  floated  her  out  over  the  bar,  and 
anchored  her  safely  in  the  stream.  This  work  was  prosecuted 
and  successfully  accomplished  under  many  difficulties,  and  at  an 
actual  cash  outiay  of  less  than  seven  thousand  dollars,  and  the 
"  Indianola  "  was  safely  delivered  at  Mound  City  navy  yard  on 
the  I /th  of  January,  1865,  being  just  three  months  and  seventeen 
days  from  the  date  of  his  departure  to  perform  the  work.  For 


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this  service  he  was  highly  commended  by  both  Admirals  Porter 
and  S.  P.  Lee,  who  succeeded  Porter  in  command  of  the  squad- 
ron whilst  the  work  was  in  progress,  and  was  highly  recom- 
mended to  the  honorable  Secretary  of  the  Navy  for  promotion 
to  the  highest  grade  of  rank  in  the  volunteer  naval  service. 

It  will  thus  be  seen  that  his  services  were  not  only  varied,  but 
most  valuable  to  the  government.  He  served  on  five,  different 
iron-clads,  building  two  of  them  (viz.  "  Lafayette  "  and  "  Choc- 
taw")  and  launching  the  "  Indianola."  When  the  Western  Flo- 
tilla was  transferred,  Oct.  ist,  A.  D.,  1862,  from  the  Army  Depart- 
ment (under  which  it  was  organized)  to  the  Regular  Navy,  the 
"  Lafayette  "  and  "  Choctaw  "  being  in  an  unfinished  condition, 
were,  by  act  of  Congress  (in  order  to  avoid  confusion  in  ac- 
counts), exempted  from  transfer  until  entirely  finished — so  that 
whilst  being  Superintendent  of  Construction  under  the  Army,  he 
was  Lieutenant  in  command  of  both  vessels  under  the  Navy,  on 
special  service,  until  both  vessels  were  finished  and  delivered  to 
the  Admiral  at  Cairo 

At  the  close  of  the  war,  in  the  spring  of  1865,  he  was  offered 
a  clerkship  in  the  Northern  Line  Packet  Co.  of  steamers,  plying 
between  St.  Louis  and  St.  Paul,  and  assigned  to  duty  as  ist  clerk 
of  the  steamer  "  Canada,"  and  continued  in  that  vocation  until 
August,  1866,  when  the  dreadful  scpurge  of  cholera  again  drove 
him  from  river  life,  the  first  case  on  the  upper  Mississippi  that 
year  having  occurred  on  board  the  "  Canada  "  at  Rock  Island, 
and  before  reaching  St.  Paul  no  less  than  twenty-two  cases  had 
occurred  on  board,  every  one  of  which  proved  fatal.  On  arrival 
at  St.  Paul  the  infected  steamer  discharged  her  cargo  and  left 
immediately  for  St.  Louis,  without  either  freight  or  passengers. 
Her  commander  was  so  frightened  that  he  left  the  boat  at 
Keokuk  on  her  way  down,  leaving  him  to  deliver  her  to  the 
owners  at  St.  Louis,  who  at  once  sent  her  to  Alton  Slough  to  be 
laid  up  for  the  balance  of  the  season,  whilst  he  went  to  his  home 
in  La  Salle,  and  bid  a  final  adieu  to  river  life,  after  a  chequered 
experience  off  and  on  for  twenty-three  years.  He  was  not  long 
idle,  but  immediately  commenced  the  erection  of  a  planing  mill 
and  box  factory,  and  secured  a  contract  for  supplying  the  win- 


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dow  glass  factory  with  their  packing  boxes,  and  in  1870  became 
the  principal  stockholder  in  the  Phcenix  Glass  Co.,  which  he  or- 
ganized, and  was  elected  superintendent  and  treasurer,  and  took 
charge  of  that  business  also,  which  he  carried  on  extensively 
until  1877,  when  his  health  became  so  much  impaired  by  reason 
of  his  arduous  labors,  and  the  physical  disabilities  contracted 
during  the  war,  resulting  in  total  deafness  and  nervous  debility, 
and  general  prostration,  he  was  compelled  to  retire,  and  removed 
to  Hot  Springs,  Arkansas,  for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  where  he 
erected  a  large  boarding  house,  known  as  the  "  Laning  Mansion," 
a  very  handsome  location  in  the  north  end  of  the  valley,  where 
he  spent  most  of  his  time  until  1885,  and  partially  regained  his 
health  (but  not  his  hearing,  as  he  is  now,  and  has  been  for  years, 
totally  deaf  in  both  ears).  His  property  in  Hot  Springs  was 
destroyed  by  fire  in  1885,  when  he  sold  his  lots  and  again  re- 
moved to  Illinois.  He  spent  the  summer  of  1880  in  Chicago,  and 
as  a  member  of  the  Union  Veteran  Club  took  an  active  part  in 
the  Garfield  campaign. 

In  1884  he  also  attempted  to  speak  at  a  ratification  meeting 
for  Elaine  and  Logan,  held  in  front  of  the  Sumpter  House,  Hot 
Springs,  Ark.,  but  was  compelled,  by  the  howls  of  the  Democrats, 
who  surrounded  the  little  band  of  Republicans,  to  desist,  and  was 
followed  by  Hon.  Powell  Clayton,  who  succeeded  in  restoring 
order.  Finding  it  entirely  useless  to  made  any  further  efforts  in 
that  bourbon-ridden  State,  he  went  to  Chicago  and  gave  his 
humble  efforts  for  Elaine  and  Logan — returning  to  Hot  Springs 
in  time  to  vote,  for  the  mere  sake  of  voting. 

In  the  glorious  campaign  of  1888  he  was  unable,  by  reason  of 
advancing  years,  declining  health,  and  total  deafness,  to  take  a 
very  active  part — making  only  one  little  speech — "  The  Rolling 
Ball " — at  Hyde  Park  Centre,  early  in  the  campaign,  and  attend- 
ing one  or  two  meetings  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  of  which 
he  is  very  proud  to  be  a  member,  and  having  the  extreme  pleas- 
ure of  casting  his  vote  at  Woodlawn  Park  precinct  for  the  entire 
Republican  ticket,  containing  fifty-one  names,  without  a  scratch, 
and  this  has  been  his  course  for  forty-six  years  past — having 
never,  in  the  whole  course  of  his  life,  voted  (as  such)  the  Demo- 


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cratic  ticket.  His  first  vote  for  president  was  for  Henry  Clay — 
though  his  first  work  was  for  Old  Tippecanoe.  He  is  a  Master 
Mason  since  1859;  an  Odd  Fellow  since  1844;  a  member  of  Chi- 
cago Union  Veteran  Club  since  1880;  a  charter  member  of 
Warren  Stewart  Post,  No.  533,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Cairo,  111.;  a  member 
of  the  Farragut  Naval  Association  of  Chicago. 


M.  A.  LAWRENCE 

Was  born  in  Otsego  county,  New  York,  June  I2th,  1820,  remov- 
ing in  1837  to  Girard,  Erie  county,  Pa.,  where  he  took  part  in  the 
campaign  of  1840.  The  excitement  of  this  campaign  in  Penn- 
sylvania was  so  intense  that  it  has  never  been  equaled.  Mr. 
Lawrence  had  an  election  wagon  fitted  out  to  attend  conventions 
with.  One  of  his  wagons  had  five  big  "  K's,"  which,  being  inter- 
preted, meant:  "  Kinderhook's  Kandidate  Kant  Kome  it  Kwite." 
These  features  were  the  cause  of  many  contests,  in  which  the 
Republicans  generally  came  out  best.  For  some  years  past  Mr. 
Lawrence  has  resided  in  Chicago,  where  he  cast  his  vote  last 
November  for  "  Young  Tippecanoe." 


M.    LOVEJOY, 

Born  September  1st,  1815,  at  Weston,  Windsor  county,  Vermont, 
where  he  remained  until  1832,  when  he  removed  to  Boston,  sub- 
sequently returning  to  his  native  town,  where,  in  1840,  he  cam- 
paigned and  voted  for  Gen.  William  H.  Harrison,  naming  his 
only  son  after  the  illustrious  Whig.  His  grandfather  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  Continental  Army  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  of  which 
fact  Mr.  Lovejoy  is  quite  proud.  He  never  lost  a  valid  opportu- 
nity to  cast  his  vote  for  "  our  "  candidate.  In  1854  the  gentleman 
came  west,  settling  in  Illinois  in  1855.  He  served  two  years  in 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  has  lived  in  Chicago  twenty-four 
years.  Mr.  Lovejoy  has  been  engaged  in  various  mercantile  pur- 
suits; his  patriotism  has  never  waned,  and  his  interest  in  the 
election  of  Gen.  B.  Harrison  was  intense,  although  in  his  eighty- 
fourth  year.  Mr.  Lovejoy  joined  the  rest  of  the  boys  in  the 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  157 

parade  of  the  town.  He  "  hopes  that  the  remainder  of  his  days 
may  be  passed  under  a  Republican  administration,"  which  laud- 
able ambition  will,  without  doubt,  be  realized,  as  the  Harrisons 
are  good  for  a  number  of  years  more  in  the  presidential  chair. 


CARLETON    G.   McCULLOCH 

Was  born  in  Sherburne,  Chenango  county,  New  York,  April  10, 
1818.  At  seven  years  of  age  he  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Erie,  Pa.,  and  when  fifteen  years  of  age  he  went  to  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
and  learned  the  drug  business,  with  C.  C.  Bristol.  When  twenty- 
one  years  of  age  he  settled  in  Lower  Sandusky  (now  Fremont), 
Ohio,  remaining  there  eight  or  ten  years — subsequently  living  in 
Newark  and  Sandusky  City,  Ohio,  and  Portage  City,  Wis.  When 
the  war  of  the  Rebellion  broke  out  he  went  to  Springfield,  111. — 
the  home  of  Abraham  Lincoln — where  he  kept  a  drug  store  for 
five  years;  then  came  to  Chicago  and  went  into  the  manufactur- 
ing business,  the  firm  being  Gillet,  McCulloch  &  Co.,  with  which 
house  he  was  connected  some  fifteen  years.  He  now  resides  in 
Chicago,  is  in  vigorous  health,  and  is  pleasantly  surrounded.  He 
voted  for  Gen.  Harrison  for  president  of  the  United  States  in 
1840,  and  for  the  second  Gen.  Harrison  in  1888. 


CAPT.  HIRAM   McHENRY 

Was  born  in  the  town  of  Westfield,  Chautauqua  county,  State  of 
New  York,  December  3 1st,  1818,  and  lived  there  until  thirty 
years  of  age.  In  the  year  1840  he  cast  his  first  vote  for  General 
William  Henry  Harrison;  in  1844  voted  for  Henry  Clay,  in  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.,  and  all  the  other  Whig  and  Republican  nominees  for 
the  presidency,  including  Benjamin  Harrison,  in  Chicago,  the  6th 
of  November,  1888.  Capt.  McHenry's  grandfather  moved  into 
Chautauqua  county  when  the  nearest  white  inhabitant  was 
twenty-eight  miles  distant,  viz.  at  Erie,  Pa.,  and  Catasagus  Creek, 
in  Catasagus  county,  east  thirty  miles.  His  uncle  was  the  first 
white  child  born  in  Chautauqua  county,  N.  Y.  In  the  year  1825 
he  met  with  Gen.  La  Fayette  the  last  time  he  visited  the  United 


158  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

Stares.  The  first  time  he  came  to  Chicago  was  in  the  year  1836 
(in  July),  as  "Royal  Boy"  on  board  the  ship  "Julia  Palmer." 
He  sailed  on  the  lakes  forty-three  years. 


JAMES  A.  MARSHALL 

Was  born  in  London,  England,  June  12,  1809.  Son  of  Major 
John  Marshall,  of  the  British  Army,  who  came  to  America  in 
1816;  was  Commandant  of  the  barracks  at  Perth,  Canada,  but 
finding  the  place  so  unfitted  for  education  of  his  children,  he  re- 
signed his  commission  and  removed  to  the  United  States,  locat- 
ing in  Ogdensburgh,  St.  Lawrence  county,  New  York.  His  son 
James  received  his  academic  education  at  the  Bellville  Academy, 
New  York,  afterward  attended  the  University  of  Maryland,  a 
medical  institute  at  Baltimore,  and  graduated  in  the  class  of 
1831.  Came  west,  and  arrived  in  Chicago  April  20,  1832.  Visited 
Navarino  (Green  Bay),  returned  to  Chicago  and  engaged  in  the 
real  estate,  auction  and  commission  business.  Has  resided  in 
Chicago  since  that  time,  voting  for  William  Henry  Harrison 
in  1840,  and  has  voted  the  Whig  and  Republican  ticket  fifty-nine 
years,  his  last  vote  being  for  Benjamin  Harrison.  He  is  the 
oldest  settler  in  Chicago  at  the  present  day  —  and  carries  the 
gold  medal  for  being  the  same.  He  has  a  wife,  one  son  (James  F. 
Marshall),  and  one  daughter  (Mrs.  P.  C.  Hanford),  now  living — 
all  residents  of  Chicago  at  the  present  time. 


ISAAC    MARSH 

Was  born  in  Victor,  Ontario  county,  N.  Y.,  in  the  year  1809. 
Voted  for  William  Henry  Harrison  in  the  year  1836,  and  also 
voted  for  the  same  gentleman  in  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  in  1840;  voted 
for  Benjamin  Harrison  for  president  in  the  fall  of  1888,  taking  an 
active  part  with  the  great  Republican  party  in  the  defeat  of  a 
wicked  and  incompetent  administration — an  administration  that 
had  sought  through  the  Democratic  party  the  destruction  of  the 
best  government  in  the  world — through  a  rebellious  war  of  four 
years,  in  the  destruction  and  murder  of  300,000  of  our  people, 
.and  at  a  cost  of  $4,000,000,000. 


JAMES   A.  MARSHALL. 


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J.  C.  MEARS. 

This  gentleman,  now  in  his  ninety-third  year,  is  the  oldest 
member  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club — having  been  born  March 
22d,  1797,  in  Milton,  Chittenden  county,  Vt. — thus  lacking  but 
seven  years  of  being  a  centenarian.  Mr.  Mears  cast  his  first  vote 
for  James  Monroe  at  his  second  election.  He  was  also  one  of 
the  only  two  voters  in  Switzerland,  Ind.,  for  the  first  anti-slavery 
candidate — the  other  voter  being  Mr.  Morris,  a  Presbyterian  Di- 
vine, of  Rising  Sun,  Indiana,  In  concluding  a  short  biographical 
sketch  of  himself,  Mr.  Mears  says:  "  I  voted  for  William  Henry 
Harrison  in  1840,  and  for  my  crowning  and  probably  last  vote, 
for  his  grandson  in  1888."  Let  us  hope  that  Mr.  Mears  may  be 
spared  to  cast  one  more  vote  for  Gen.  Harrison. 


NATHAN    MEARS 

Was  born  at  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  December  3Oth,  1815.  His 
parents  were  Nathan  and  Lucy  Levistone  Mears,  who  both  died 
before  he  was  twelve  years  old.  He  was  educated  at  the  Biller- 
ica and  Westford  Academies.  At  seventeen  years  he  secured  a 
position  with  Nichols  &  Leeder,  wholesale  and  retail  dry  goods, 
in  Boston,  and  continued  with  them  until  1836,  when  he  formed 
a  co-partnership  with  his  two  older  brothers,  Edwin  and  Charles, 
and  with  a  stock  of  general  merchandise  removed  to  Paw  Paw, 
Michigan,  and  opened  a  store,  the  firm  being  E.  &  C.  Mears  & 
Co.  In  1839  he  bought  out  his  brothers,  continuing  until  1850, 
when  he  removed  to  Chicago  and  commenced  the  lumber  busi- 
iness  with  his  brother  Charles,  the  firm  being  C.  Mears  &  Co.  In 
1861  his  brother  retired,  Eli  Bates  succeeding  him,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Mears,  Bates  &  Co.  This  firm  for  a  number  of  years 
handled  more  lumber  than  any  firm  in  the  world,  and  owned  a 
large  fleet  of  vessels  on  the  lakes,  until  Mr.  Bates'  death,  in  1881. 
He  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Mears'  son  Charles  H.,  the  firm  being 
Nathan  &  Charles  H.  Mears,  until  the  spring  of  1889,  when 
Nathan  retired  from  the  firm.  In  1867  the  Oconto  Co.  was  in- 
corporated, Geo.  Farnsworth  and  the  firm  of  Mears,  Bates  &  Co., 
(then  including  Nathan  Mears,  Eli  Bates,  James  C.  Brooks,  and 


NATHAN  MEARS. 


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Geo.  H.  Ambrose),  being  the  owners.  Mr.  Farnsworth  was 
elected  president,  and  Nathan  Mears  vice-president,  which  office 
he  has  held  continuously  to  this  time.  This  company  has  lum- 
bered extensively  since  its  organization,  and  owns  a  large 
amount  of  standing  timber,  and  upwards  of  one  hundred  thous- 
and acres  of  land  on  the  Oconto  river  in  Wisconsin.  In  1881  the 
Bay  De  Noquet  Co.,  of  Nahina,  Delta  county,  Michigan,  was 
organized,  the  Oconto  Co.,  being  owners — Geo.  Farnsworth,  pres- 
ident, and  Nathan  Mears,  vice-president.  This  company  has  a 
large  amount  of  standing  timber,  and  upwards  of  seventy-five 
thousand  acres  of  land  on  the  Sturgeon  river  that  flows  into  Big 
Bay  De  Noquet,  at  the  north  end  of  Green  Bay,  in  the  northern 
peninsular  of  Michigan.  The  mills  of  these  two  companies  are 
manufacturing  at  this  time  over  four  hundred  thousand  feet  of 
lumber  a  day.  Mr.  Mears  was  married  to  Ann  Elizabeth  Gilbert, 
of  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  February  6th,  1840.  They  had  four  chil- 
dren— two  sons  and  two  daughters.  Their  youngest  son,  Nathan, 
died  in  infancy,  in  1858.  Their  oldest  daughter,  Lucy  A.,  mar- 
ried Mr.  Johnathan  Slade;  Sarah  Elizabeth  married  Mr.  James  R. 
McKay;  and  Chas.  H.  married  Miss  Harriett  Wright,  all  of  Chi- 
cago, where  they  now  reside.  Mr.  Mears  voted  for  William 
Henry  Harrison  at  Paw  Paw,  Mich.,  in  1840,  and  for  Benjamin 
Harrison  in  Chicago  in  1888,  and  was  joined  by  his  son,  two  sons- 
in-law,  and  his  oldest  grandson,  Mr.  Gilbert  L.  Slade,  who  all 
voted  the  straight  Republican  ticket. 

Mr.  Mears  was  brought  up  a  Unitarian — one  of  the  organizers 
of  Unity  Church  in  this  city — has  contributed  toward  its  support 
over  $40,000,  and  is  still  hale,  hearty  and  generous. 


N.  F.  MERRILL 

Was  born  August  27,  1816,  in  the  town  of  New  Boston,  New 
Hampshire  removed  to  Boston,  Mass.,  in  1833  where  he  remained 
till  1839,  when  he  made  a  six-year-stay  in  Macon,  Ga.,  later 
returning  to  his  native  state,  as  the  South  contained  almost  too 
many  Democrats  for  healthy  climatic  surroundings — to  Republi- 
cans. Mr.  Merrill  came  to  Chicago  in  1852,  and  has  resided  here 


N.    F.    MERRILL. 


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ever  since,  being  actively  engaged  in  mercantile,  railroad  and  real 
estate  business.  He  voted  for  Harrison  in  1840  at  Macon,  Ga., 
and  in  Chicago  for  all  the  presidents  of  the  Republican  platform, 
including  the  late  campaign  of  the  "Old  Tippecanoes,"  and  his 
highest  ambition  is  to  be  able  to  "do  it  again;"  his  health  bids 
fair  to  permit.  Residence,  1401  Washington  boulevard. 


WILLIAM    MENDSEN, 

Born  near  Cherryville,  Northampton  county,  Pa.,  September 
iith,  1817.  He  was  a  descendant  of  German  parentage — his 
father  being  a  clergyman  of  the  Lutheran  church,  and  voting  for 
Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison  at  both  elections — 1836  and  1840. 
Mr.  Mendsen  cast  his  first  vote  for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison 
in  1840,  at  Triedsville,  Pa.  Has  been  engaged  in  business  in 
Chicago  ever  since  1851,  the  year  of  his  arrival,  enjoying  good 
health,  and  among  the  more  important  events  of  his  later  life 
was  his  vote  cast  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison,  and  the  celebra- 
tion of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  marriage,  which  occurred 
in  1888. 


JOHN    MILLER, 

Born  January  16,  1816,  in  Turin,  Lewis  county,  New  York.  His 
parents  were  of  Massachusetts  Puritan  descent.  In  1824  his 
parents  removed  to  Louisville,  St.  Lawrence  county,  N.  Y.,  on 
the  St.  Lawrence  river,  where  he  was  reared.  His  father,  Rev. 
Levi  Miller,  was  a  Methodist  clergyman,  and  a  leader  of  the 
work  of  that  pioneer  church  in  this  then  newly  settled  region. 
He  was  also  the  representative  of  James  McVicker,  one  of  the 
original  proprietors  of  a  large  portion  of  that  county. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Ogdens- 
burg,  and  practiced  his  profession  at  Canton,  N.  Y.  He  voted 
for  William  Henry  Harrison  for  president  in  1840,  and  for  the 
Whig  and  Republican  candidates  for  president  at  every  presi- 
dential election  since  he  arrived  at  majority.  He  has  always 
taken  an  active  interest  in  political  matters.  He  was  in  charge 


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of  the  office  of  the  County  Clerk  and  Recorder,  and  Clerk  of 
Court  of  St.  Lawrence  county,  N.  Y.,  for  sixteen  years,  and  was 
County  Clerk  of  that  county  from  1868  to  1871.  In  1884  he  came 
to  Chicago,  where  he  has  two  sons  living,  and  since  that  time  he 
has  been  with  his  son,  John  S.  Miller,  of  the  law  firm  of  Miller, 
Leman  &  Chase,  of  Chicago. 


WM.    BRUCE   MILLS 

Was  born  in  the  town  of  Charlestown,  Clark  county,  Indiana,  on 
the  22d  day  of  May,  1818.  In  1820  his  father  moved  to  the  ad- 
joining county  of  Washington,  and  settled  down  at  Salem,  the 
county-seat.  His  father  was  a  great  admirer  of  Henry  Clay,  the 
original  protectionist,  and  founder  of  the  Whig  party,  and  W.  B. 
imbibed  the  principles  of  this  great  leader,  and  has  followed 
them  out  by  voice  and  vote  during  his  long  lifetime.  In  1840  he 
cast  his  first  vote  for  president  and  vice-president  of  the  United 
States,  in  the  town  of  Greencastle,  Putnam  county,  Indiana,  to 
which  place  he  removed  in  1837.  William  Henry  Harrison  was 
his  candidate  in  1840,  and  Benjamin  Harrison  in  1888. 


GEORGE   S.   MOORE 

Son  of  Philip  and  Sarah  Moore,  was  born  April  14,  1809,  in  Tini- 
cum  township,  Bucks  county  Penn.  His  father  was  a  blacksmith 
by  trade,  and  had  five  sons  and  one  daughter.  He  enlisted  in  the 
year  1812  in  the  second  war  with  Great  Britain.  When  George 
S.  reached  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  voted  the  Whig  ticket, 
voting  in  1840  for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison,  and  having  long 
borne  the  heat  and  burden  of  the  day,  he  felt  thankful  to  have 
lived  and  seen,  and  helped  elect  in  1888  his  grandson,  the  present 
president  of  the  United  States. 


LUTHER     LAFLIN    MILLS 

Was  born  in  Canton,  Hartford  county,  Conn.,  in  1819.  His  early 
years  were  passed  in  commercial  pursuits  with  good  success, 
when,  in  1849,  the  fame  of  young  Chicago  induced  him  to  come 


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west,  (vher'fc  he  resided  up  to  the  time  of  his  decease,  which  oc- 
curred at  the  Gault  House,  in  this  city,  January  14,  1889.  In 
politics  Mr.  Mills  was  originally  a  Whig,  being  a  delegate  to  the 
young  Whig  ratification  at  Baltimore  in  1840.  From  1856  to  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  a  constant,  earnest  Republican — a  man 
of  strong  resolute  character,  scholarly  in  his  tastes,  kind  to  every- 
body, a  model  of  perfect  old  school  gentleman.  Mr.  Mills'  rela- 
tives number  many  of  our  most  worthy  and  prominent  citizens. 


THOMAS  C.  MOORE 

Was  born  near  Shelbyville,  in  the  State  of  Tennessee,  November 
26th,  1817;  removed  to  Clark  county  in  1821,  and  settled  near  the 
Wabash  river;  then  removed  to  Coles  county  in  1826,  settling 
near  the  present  location  of  Mattoon  (at  that  time  Coles  county 
had  not  been  organized,  nor  had  Charlestown,  the  county-seat, 
been  located),  and  labored  as  a  farm  hand  until  1837.  Attended 
the  Academy  in  Marshall,  Clark  county,  and  studied  law  in  the 
office  of  Judge  Harland.  Was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Marshall, 
May,  1843.  Removed  to  Chicago  in  June,  1845,  ar>d  from  thence 
to  Batavia,  111.,  in  August,  1848,  where  he  has  since  resided,  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  law.  He  had  been  a  Whig  in  politics 
until  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party  in  1854,  which  he 
helped  to  organize,  and  was  a  delegate  to  the  first  Congressional 
Convention  ever  held  under  the  name  of  "  Republican."  That 
convention  was  held  in  Aurora,  Kane  county,  111.,  on  the  igth  day 
of  September,  1854.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  on 
Platform  at  that  convention,  and  assisted  the  late  Judge  Ma- 
nierre,  of  Chicago,  in  drafting  the  platform.  The  committee 
recommended  to  the  convention  the  name  of  "  Republican  "  for 
the  new  party,  which  was  adopted.  He  voted  for  Gen.  William 
Henry  Harrison  in  1840,  and  joined  the  Tippecanoe  Club,  of  Chi- 
cago, during  the  presidential  in  1888,  voting  for  Gen.  Benjamin 
Harrison. 

COL.  ALEX.  H.  MORRISON, 

Of  St.  Joseph,  Michigan,  was  born  in  Quebec,  Canada,  February 
21,  1822,  of  Scotch  and  American  parentage.  Came  to  Chicago 


L.  L.  MILLS. 


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in  October,  1839;  was  employed  in  a  canal  office  at  what  is  now 
called  Lemont,  Cook  county,  111.,  and  labored  with  assiduity  be- 
fore and  on  election  day  in  1840  for  Gen.  Wm.  Henry  Harrison 
for  president.  In  the  fifty  years  of  residence  in  the  northwest, 
thirty-eight  years  have  been  spent  in  St.  Joseph,  Michigan;  was 
chairman  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  in  1851;  candidate  for  Pres- 
idential elector  on  the  Whig  ticket  in  1852;  elected  State  Senator 
in  1856,  and  supported  Zack  Chandler  for  Senator  In  i860  was 
elected  to  the  Assembly,  and  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
State  Affairs  in  the  Legislature  for  three  sessions,  and  was  on 
the  staff  of  Gov.  Bingham,  and  also  on  that  of  Gov.  VVisner,  with 
rank  of  Colonel;  was  a  member  of  Republican  State  Central 
Committee  from  1862  to  1866;  was  Collecior  of  Internal  Revenue, 
appointed  by  Abraham  Lincoln,  for  Second  Congressional  Dis- 
trict of  Michigan.  The  last  position  held  was  member  of  Repub- 
lican National  Convention  in  1880,  and  voted  upon  every  ballot, 
as  did  Benjamin  Harrison,  our  present  president.  His  Chicago 
address  is  4322  Berkley  Avenue. 


CHARLES  H.  MORTON, 

Born  on  the  nth  day  of  June,  A.  D.,  1816,  near  Lexington,  Fay- 
ette  county,  Ky.  (in  the  neighborhood  of  "  Ashland,"  the  resi- 
dence of  the  immortal  Henry  Clay).  In  the  year  1831,  at  the 
age  of  fifteen  years,  emigrated  to  Clark  (now  Coles)  county,  111., 
settled  in  Charlestown,  the  county-seat;  in  the  year  1868  re- 
moved to  Chicago;  followed  the  occupation  of  a  retail  dry  goods 
merchant,  then  a  private  banker,  then  president  of  a  national 
bank,  and  finally  a  manufacturer  and  wholesale  dealer  in  ready- 
made  clothing,  in  the  city  of  Chicago.  Gave  first  presidential 
vote  in  1840  for  Wm.  Henry  Harrison;  in  1844  for  Henry  Clay; 
1848  for  Gen.  Tayler;  1852  for  Gen.  Scott;  1856  for  Gen.  Fremont; 
1860  and  '64  for  Abraham  Lincoln;  1868  and  '72  for  Gen.  Grant; 
1876  for  Gen.  Hayes;  1880  for  Gen.  Garfield;  1884  for  James  G. 
Blaine;  1888  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison — never  cast  a  Demo- 
cratic vote  for  even  the  smallest  office  when  there  was  a  Whig  or 
Republican  candidate. 


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C.  W.  MUNGER 

Was  born  in  the  village  of  Herkimer,  Herkimer  county,  N.  Y., 
but  was  raised  in  Auburn,  where  he  resided  until  1838,  when  he 
moved  to  Chicago,  and  with  the  exception  of  an  interval  of  three 
years  spent  at  his  former  home  in  Auburn,  has  been  a  resident  of 
this  State. 

In  June,  1840,  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Whig  State  Conven- 
tion at  Springfield,  and  at  the  close  of  the  convention  he  visited 
Chicago,  then  a  town  of  4,500  inhabitants,  and  cast  his  first  vote 
where  he  also  cast  his  last  vote,  for  "  Tippecanoe." 

In  1852  he  located  in  Peru.  At  this  date  the  C.,  R.  I.  &  P.  R. 
R.  had  commenced  grading  and  laying  track  from  Chicago  to  the 
head  of  navigation  on  the  Illinois  river.  He  remained  in  Peru 
until  June,  1886,  when  he  made  his  final  residence  in  Chicago. 

Mr.  Munger  was  an  attendant  at  the  Tippecanoe  Club  meet- 
ings until  confined  to  his  house  by  sickness.  He  died  on  the  gth 
of  February,  at  his  residence  in  Hyde  Park,  and  was  buried  Feb- 
ruary nth.  The  funeral  was  largely  attended  by  the  members 
of  this  club. 

JOHN   NOURSE 

Was  born  January  /th,  1812,  in  the  town  of  Hampden,  county  of 
Penobscot,  State  of  Maine.  He  attended  school  until  he  was 
fourteen  years  old,  acquiring  a  fair  English  education.  He  then 
entered  a  store  as  clerk,  remaining  in  that  capacity  eleven  years, 
then  commenced,  in  conjunction  with  a  partner,  and  continued 
fourteen  years,  then  on  his  own  account  continued  in  the  same 
business  until  the  year  1853,  when  he  went  to  Lower  Canada,  and 
remained  in  business  there  four  years.  He  then,  with  his  family, 
moved  to  Michigan,  and  connected  himself  with  a  railroad. 
Here  he  remained  until  1865,  when  he.  came  to  Chicago,  where  he 
has  continued  in  the  railroad  business.  He  voted  in  1840  for 
Gen.  Wrm.  Henry  Harrison  for  president  of  the  United  States. 
In  conclusion  Mr.  Nourse  says:  "  Altogether  I  have  voted  for 
seven  or  eight  presidents,  the  last  one  being  Gen.  Benjamin  Har- 
rison. As  a  coincidence  I  will  state  the  fact  that  I  was  town 
clerk  in  my  native  town  for  seventeen  years  consecutively,  and 


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as  such  had  to  make  up  a  certificate  whenever  there  was  an  elec- 
tion, and  forward  it  to  the  capitol,  .showing  who  the  town  voted 
for.  Being  clerk  in  1840,  when  Harrison  was  elected,  of  course  I 
had  to  make  up  the  certificate  of  election  and  forward  it.  Forty- 
eight  years  afterward,  on  Nov.  6,  1888,  as  one  of  the  Judges  of 
election  in  Chicago,  I  assisted  in  making  up  the  returns  for  the 
election  of  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison.  I  am  now  seventy-seven 
years  old,  in  the  enjoyment  of  perfect  health,  and  retain  all  my 
faculties — mental  and  physical — and  am  happy  in  the  thought 
that  I  have  been  a  Christian  man  for  about  sixty  years,  and  ex- 
pect in  due  time  to  change  this  for  a  better  world." 


FRANCIS    NOURSE 

Was  born  in  Merrimack,  N.  H.,  April  i/th,  1817,  and  traces,  his 
geneology  back  six  generations,  to  Francis  Nourse,  born  in  1618, 
and  the  original  emigrant  of  the  Nourse  family  from  Yarmouth, 
England,  A.  D.,  1634.  Mr.  Nourse  has  been  a  resident  of  Chicago 
for  many  years,  and  had  two  sons  in  the  "  Board  of  Trade  Bat- 
tery "  during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion.  Mr.  Nourse  voted  for 
Gen.  Harrison  in  the  year  1840,  at  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
and  for  Benjamin  Harrison  in  1888,  and  all  Whig  and  Republican 
candidates  in  the  interim. 


THOMAS    PARKER 

WTas  born  in  the  town  of  Indiana,  Pa.,  on  the  I2th  day  of  Dec., 
1814.  In  1836  he  removed  to  the  town  of  Butler,  Pa.,  where  he 
voted. the  Democratic  ticket  till  the  spring  of  1840,  when  they 
had  a  town  Democratic  meeting  in  the  court  house,  at  which  he 
offered  a  tariff  resolution,  but  it  was  voted  down  as  a  disturbing 
element  in  the  party,  and  he  then  and  there  declared  he  was  no 
longer  a  Democrat — voting  the  Whig  and  Republican  ticket  ever 
since.  At  the  election  of  1840  he  voted  for  Gen.  \Villiam  Henry 
Harrison,  and  at  the  election  last  fall  voted  for  Gen.  Benjamin 
Harrison  for  president,  on  the  same  issues  of  the  campaign  of 
1840. 


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ORVILLE  OLCOTT. 

In  the  year  of  1814,  Orville  Olcott,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  born  at  the  town  of  Lenox,  Madison  county,  N.  Y.  When  but 
six  weeks  old  his  father  died,  leaving  himself,  mother  and  an  older 
sister,  to  battle  with  the  world  on  a  pioneer  York  State  farm. 
Subsequently,  however,  his  mother  married  again,  and  although 
other  children  were  born,  it  devolved  upon  young  Orville  as  the 
oldest,  to  give  the  most  aid  to  his  step-father  in  reclaiming  an 
uncultivated  and  rugged  farm  into  a  prosperous  and  valuable 
property.  This  was  not  done  without  years  of  toil,  unaided  by 
the  labor-saving  farm  machinery  of  today,  which  makes  farming 
comparatively  an  easy  task.  In  the  meantime,  and  until  he  at- 
tained the  age  of  fourteen,  his  schooling  was  confined  to  the 
meagre  advantages  of  a  common  school  education,  obtained 
during  the  winter  sessions.  Just  such  an  experience  as  many  of 
the  old  time  New  England  and  York  State  settlers,  now  pros- 
perous citizens  of  the  western  states,  can  look  back  to — an  ex- 
perience which  laid  the  foundation  of  their  characters,  and  made 
possibly  their  latter  day  successes.  When  at  this  age,  he  moved 
toUtica,  N.  Y.,  at  the  instance  of  his  uncle,  to  learn  the  business  of 
canal  boat  building  on  the  Erie  Canal — about  this  time  just  com- 
pleted— and  to  secure  the  advantages  of  a  better  education.  He 
continued  in  this  business  until  1835,  when,  at  .the  age  of  twenty- 
one,  his  uncle  relinquished  the  business  to  him  in  order  to  go 
west.  In  those  days  the  Erie  Canal  was  the  great  thoroughfare 
for  passenger  and  freight  traffic,  and  for  thirteen  years  he  carried 
on  a  prosperous  business  in  building  and  repairing  canal  boats. 
He  constructed  many  of  the  passenger  and  mail  service 
packets  which  plied  between  Albany  and  Buffalo,  and  in  those 
days  were  regarded  as  elegant  and  rapid  means  of  transit. 
During  this  period  of  his  life  in  Utica,  he  took  an  active  interest  in 
politics  and  all  matters  of  local  concern,  and  served  in  every 
capacity — from  a  volunteer  fireman  to  a  seat  in  the  common 
council  of  the  city.  He  was  thrice  elected  as  alderman,  and  took 
a  prominent  part  in  the  campaign  of  1836,  of  Harrison  against 
Van  Buren — his  first  vote  being  recorded  in  that  year  for  the 
former  in  his  unsuccessful  candidacy  for  the  presidential  chair. 


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Again,  in  the  campaign  of  1840,  he  worked  and  voted  for 
Harrison,  and  this  time,  while  more  successful,  it  was  rendered 
more  the  less  futile  by  the  untimely  and  much  lamented  death 
of  Gen.  Harrison,  soon  after  being  installed  in  office. 

In  1848,  the  advent  of  the  railroad  having  cut  an  inroad  into, 
and  depressed  the  business  of  the  canal,  he  made  a  trip  to  the 
then  far  western  town  of  Chicago,  at  the  instigation  of  a  canal 
boat  company,  to  report  upon  the  prospects  of  the  Illinois  and 
Michigan  canal,  then  being  built.  The  result  was  the  obtaining  of 
a  contract  to  build  a  line  of  packet  boats  there.  From  that 
time  to  the  present,  Mr.  Olcott  has  lived  in  Chicago,  and  wit- 
nessed its  marvelous  growth.  For  almost  thirty  years  he  was 
engaged  actively  in  business.  Of  the  five  dry  docks  built  here, 
he,  with  his  partners,  were  instrumental  in  building  three  of  them, 
and  some  of  the  oldest  boats  now  sailing  the  great  lakes,  were 
built  under  his  supervision. 

He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Board  of  Trade, 
but  has  confined  himself  during  all  these  latter  years,  stictly  to 
business,  ignoring  any  active  participation  in  politics,  except  to 
be  a  constant  and  consistent  voter  of  the  Republican  ticket,  both 
at  local  and  national  elections.  Throughout  he  has  endeavored 
to  be  an  honest  and  law-abiding  citizen.  He  has  recorded  three 
votes  for  the  Harrison  family — in  1836,  1840  and  1888 — and 
hopes  to  live  to  vote  many  more  Republican  tickets. 

He  has  been  twice  married,  and  has  had  six  sons,  who  lived  to 
vote  the  same  ticket,  four  of  whom  are  still  living — two  having 
served  through  the  war  for  the  Union  —  and  all  honor  their 
father's  political  predilictions,  by  being  staunch  Republicans. 


JAMES  M.  PERRY 

Was  born  in  Chelsea,  Orange  county,  N.  Y.,  March  2Oth,  1811. 
When  some  ten  years  of  age  his  father  moved  to  the  town  of 
Ira,  Rutland  county,  Vt.,  where,  in  1836,  he  cast  his  first  vote  for 
Wm.  Henry  Harrison.  In  1839  he  emigrated  to  Illinois,  and 
voted  again  for  William  Henry  Harrison  for  president,  at  Bour- 
bonnais  Grove,  being  then  in  Will  county.  In  1888  he  voted  for 
Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison,  and  is  proud  of  it. 


R.  P.  POTE. 


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ROBERT  P.  POTE 

Was  born  in  Belfast,  Maine,  in  1817.  He  attained  his  majority  in 
the  same  town,  and  cast  his  first  vote  for  William  Henry  Harrison 
in  1840,  and  moved  to  Chicago  in  1855,  and  has  ever  been  a 
staunch  and  true  supporter  of  the  Whig  and  Republican  nomi- 
nees during  his  life,  casting  his  vote  in  1888  for  Gen.  Benjamin 
Harrison,  and  sincerely  trusting  that  he  may  be  allowed  to  poll 
one  more  vote  for  the  Harrison  family. 


AMOS  H.  POWERS 

Was  born  September  1st,  1819,  in  Phillipston,  Worcester  county, 
Mass.  He  passed  his  early  boyhood  days  on  his  father's  farm, 
W7ith  the  usual  New  England  district-school  privileges,  and  later 
moved  to  Worcester  and  learned  the  trade  of  a  tailor.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1840,  he  .moved  from  Worcester  to  Boston,  thereby  losing 
the  opportunity  of  casting  his  first  bdllot  for  Gen.  William  Henry 
Harrison,  although  working  for  his  election  by  marching  in 
torch-light  processions  and  shouting  Tippecanoe  songs,  etc. 
In  1845  ne  formed  a  co-partnership  as  merchant  tailor  with 
George  Lyon,  which  continued  until  the  year  1856,  when  his 
health  became  impaired  by  too  close  application  to  business,  and 
he,  removing  to  Chicago,  engaged  in  more  active  out-door  pur- 
suits. His  wife  is  of  the  seventh  generation  from  Deacon  Simon 
Stone,  of  Watertown,  Mass.,  1635.  In  the  year  1883  he  compiled 
and  published  a  history  of  Walter  Powers,  who  settled  in  Con- 
cord "village,"  Mass.,  in  1660,  and  some  of  his  descendants  to 
the  ninth  generation.  Mr.  Powers'  vote  in  1888  was  cast  for  the 
"  Young  Tippecanoe." 

LUCIAN  PRINCE 

Was  born  March  31,  1819,  in  Dudley,  Mass.  I  cast  my  first  vote 
in  Holliston,  Mass.,  in  1840  for  "Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too." 

An  exigency  arose  within  two  years  that  caused  me  to  loose 
faith  in  the  then  acting  President  of  these  United  States,  John 
Tyler,  because  of  his  interference  in  the  legitimate  manner  the 


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inhabitants  of  Rhode  Island  were  endeavoring  to  become  a 
State  in  accordance  with  the  constitution  of  these  United  United 
States,  by  adopting  a  Republican  form  of  government,  it  having 
existed  up  to  this  time  under  a  charter  granted  by  the  King  of 
Great  Britain  early  in  the  sixteenth  century.  In  1842,  President 
Tyler  ordered  the  garrison  at  Fort  Adams,  at  Newport,  to  be 
strengthened.  He  dispatched  his  Secretary  of  War  to  that  State, 
with  instructions  and  authority,  to  call  upon  the  Governors  of 
Massachusetts  and  Connecticut  in  concert  with  the  U.  S.  troeps 
at  Fort  Adams,  for  the  purpose,  if  found  necessary  (as  he  says), 
"  to  uphold  the  rights  of  the  charter  State  government."  He 
was  opposed  to  the  people's  movement  to  establish  a  "  Free 
Constitution,"  as  he  in  his  special  message  to  Congress,  April, 
1844,  when  called  upon  to  explain  his  official  action  toward  the 
State  of  Rhode  Island,  said  virtually  in  that  message  that  he 
would  use  all  necessary  means  in  his  power  to  overthrow  the 
People's  Constitution.  In  his  conduct  toward  the  party  which 
elected  him  to  office  he  proved  recreant,  and  forfeited  their  con- 
fidence. Finding  himself  ostracised  and  condemned,  he  sloughed 
off  into  the  Calhoun  Democracy  of  the  South,  and  went  into  po- 
litical oblivion — drinking  the  health  of  the  Southern  Confederacy. 
His  action  heightened  the  indignation  of  very  many  of  the  Whig 
party  in  Massachusetts  who  opposed  the  election  of  Gov.  Davis, 
because  of  his  personal  sympathy  with  Tyler,  and  it  caused 
Davis'  defeat  by  a  majority  of  one  on  a  popular  vote — and  elec- 
ted the  Democratic  candidate,  Marcus  Morton.  As  I  was  the 
only  voter  who  changed  from  Whig  to  Democrat  in  Holliston 
in  1842,  I  claim  his  election,  having  acted  from  a  sense  of  duty  I 
owed  myself — the  government  which  my  grandfather  shed  his 
blood  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  to  establish — and  the  national 
spirit  underlying  the  government  under  which  we  live.  When- 
ever I  could,  by  voice  or  vote,  advance  the  cause  of  human  free- 
dom and  liberty,  in  conjunction  with  other  measures  conducive 
of  the  best  interests  of  my  country,  I  have  done  so — and  from  a 
high  sense  of  duty  I  owed  to  my  country,  and  my  God — not  for 
self  aggrandisement,  nor  the  emoluments  of  office.  In  1848  the 
Whig  party  of  the  nation  ignored  its  former  declared  principles 


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upon  the  question  of  slavery,  and  nominated  a  man  in  unison 
with  slave  power.  Its  action  caused  the  Free  Soil  party  to  come 
into  existence.  It  had  its  mission — and  in  due  time  accomplished 
its  work.  From  it  the  Republican  party  emanated,  and  was  re- 
cruited by  the  liberty  loving  voters  of  all  parties;  and  appeared 
upon  the  political  arena  in  1856  as  a  factor  for  the  above  parties. 
It  became  apparent  to  the  slave  power  that  the  slumbering  spirit 
of  freedom  was  aroused,  and  by  compromise  and  otherwise  it 
sought  to  allay  its  onward  march.  In  1860  the  Republican  party 
entered  the  political  field  in  all  earnestness.  It  nominated  its 
ticket,  and  adopted  its  platform  in  this  city  of  Chicago,  and  went 
forth  to  conquest.  In  my  native  State  (Mass.)  the  spirit  of  1776 
had  been  revived  long  ere  this.  The  people  of  the  State  pooled 
their  political  strength  as  to  the  encroachment  of  the  slave 
power,  and  in  1852  sent  that  champion  of  religious  and  political 
liberty  to  the  United  States  Senate — Charles  Sumner,  a  man  who 
sacrificed  his  life  and  strength  to  the  cause  so  near  and  dear  to 
his  heart,  the  people's  rights.  Your  humble  servant  believes  he 
aided  in  Summer's  election.  The  town  had  not  sent  a  represent- 
ative in  eight  years.  A  coalition  of  Free  Soilers  with  the  liberal 
Democrats  elected  a  member  of  the  Legislature  by  one  majority. 
I  brought  to  the  polls  the  last  voter  that  voted  the  successful 
ticket,  and  at  a  Sumner  supper,  given  at  Holliston  after  the 
election,  State  Senator  Wilson,  afterward  U.  S.  Senator,  and  later 
Vice-President  of  the  United  States,  said:  "To  Lucian  Prince  be- 
longs the  credit  of  electing  your  member  of  the  House,  and  his 
vote,  after  a  hundred  and  fifty-one  ballots,  elected  Charles  Sum- 
ner." Thirty-eight  years  later  I  look  back  to  the  event  as  the 
proudest  political  act  of  my  life. 

In  1856  the  Republican  party  was  organized  in  Worcester, 
Mass.,  where  I  then  resided,  and  it  was  at  that  meeting  that  I  re- 
nounced the  Democratic  party,  and  gave  the  following  as  my 
reasons  for  so  doing:  President  Pierce,  in  his  inaugural  address, 
said:  "No  act  of  mine  shall  reopen  the  agitation  of  the  question 
of  slavery."  We  soon  found  him  running  neck  and  neck  with 
squatter  sovereign  Douglas,  seeing  who  could  cringe  the  lowest 
to  the  slave  power.  I  said  in  the  above  named  meeting  that 


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Pierce  had  forfeited  all  right  to  the  confidence  of  the  people,  and 
for  one  I  repudiated  him  and  his  party — and  to  this  day  I  have 
had  no  occasion  to  regret  it.  I  have  been  an  active  participant 
in  all  that  conduced  to  the  good  of  the  government  my  fore- 
fathers came  to  this  country  in  1631  to  help  establish  in  Massa- 
chusetts. 

By  a  vote  of  the  Tippecanoe  Club  of  this  city  I  was  requested 
to  write  and  present  my  own  biography.  I  have  ever  felt  proud 
of  the  part  my  ancestors  took  to  establish  religious  and  civil  lib- 
erty in  the  early  days  of  this  republic.  The  name  of  Prince  is 
coeval  with  the  settlement  of  Boston.  1631  Rev.  Job  Prince,,  a 
blind  Episcopal  minister,  settled  in  Boston.  On  the  voter's  list 
has  appeared  the  name  of  Prince  to  this  day.  Many  of  them 
have  filled  important  civil  and  political  offices.  On  my  mother's 
side,  the  Gore's  came  to  Roxbury  (now  Boston  highlands)  in 
1637.  The  name  can  be  found  among  its  voters  from  that  day  to 
this.  Gov.  Gore  was  a  man  of  wealth,  and  spent  most  of  his  life 
within  the  political  arena  of  his  State — at  one  time  acted  as  U.  S. 
Senator.  My  great-grandfather  emigrated  from  Roxbury  to 
Dudley  in  1729,  and  the  name  of  Gore  was  upon  the  voter's  list 
of  that  town  for  one  hundred  and  forty  years. 

In  the  meeting  of  the  Tippecanoe  Club  heretofore  alluded  to, 
I  spoke  of  the  part  I  took  in  the  erection  of  a  monument  to  the 
memory  of  Col.  Bigelow,  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  of  the  Continental 
line,  in  1860.  It  was  erected  by  his  grandson,  Chief  Justice  Bige- 
low, of  Boston,  on  the  Central  Park  of  Worcester.  This  man 
Bigelow  left  Worcester  on  the  igth  day  of  April,  1776,  as  Cap- 
tain of  the  Minute  Men,  who  had  organized  to  go  upon  the  first 
signal  informing  them  that  the  war  had  commenced.  It  was 
upon  this  ever  memorable  igth  day  of  April  that  the  war  messen- 
ger from  Boston  came  into  town  on  a  white  horse,  at  break-neck 
speed,  shouting  at  the  top  of  his  voice:  "  To  arms!  to  arms!  the 
war  has  commenced!  Minute  Men  turn  out!"  It  was  understood  by 
these  Minute  Men  what  was  to  be  the  signal.  When  the  messen- 
ger made  his  announcement  the  old  South  bell  was  to  be  rang 
vigorously.  There  were  to  be  three  signal  guns  fired  also.  At 
the  dedication  of  this  monument  it  was  the  wish  of  the  entire 


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community  that  the  scenes  of  April  iQth,  1776,  could  be  re-en- 
acted. Preparations  were  made  to  do  so.  The  city  government 
entered  into  the  arrangements  heartily.  They  caused  Main  street 
(over  which  this  war  messenger  rode)  to  be  cleared  of  all  car- 
riages for  a  mile,  so  the  man  who  rode  the  horse  could  do  so 
with  safety  while  announcing  his  message.  Your  humble  servant 
acted  as  that  messenger.  The  city  dailies,  in  giving  an  account 
of  the  same,  said:  "  The  stentorian  voice  of  Mr.  Prince,  who  acted 
as  the  war  messenger,  could  be  heard  for  a  long  distance.  It 
was  truly  a  thrilling  scene — one  long  to  be  remembered."  I 
should  have  said  ere  this,  that  those  Minute  Men  left  the  old 
South  Church  in  one  hour  and  forty  minutes  after  the  news  was 
communicated  to  them  —  after  the  Rev.  Mr.  McCarty  united 
with  them  in  prayer.  They  started  upon  the  double-quick  for 
the  first  mile  out  of  the  forty-five  to  Boston — so  says  the  histo- 
rian, the  Hon.  George  Bancroft,  a  native  of  Worcester. 

I  desire  to  allude  to  the  part  I  took  on  the  igth  of  April,  1861. 
A  notice  came  to  the  Worcester  Light  Infantry,  from  Gov.  An- 
drews, to  appear  on  Boston  common  at  twelve  o'clock,  noon,  next 
day,  armed  and  equipped  as  the  law  directs,  to  join  the  Massa- 
chusetts Sixth,  which  would  leave  the  State  for  Washington,  D. 
C.,  as  soon  as  may  be.  This  Worcester  company  left  their 
armory  at  ten  o'clock  A.  M.,  under  escort  of  the  citizens  of  Wor- 
cester, to  the  Boston  depot,  by  order  of  Maj.  Lamb.  The  right 
of  the  line  was  accorded  to  your  humble  servant.  I  early  sought 
to  become  a  volunteer  to  help  to  put  down  the  rebellion — and 
was  rejected,  as  I  had  but  two  whole  fingers  on  my  right  hand.  I 
expressed  my  indignation,  and  said:  "You  will  be  glad  to  get 
three-fingered  fellows  before  this  rebellion  is  squelched."  I  acted 
upon  important  commiitees  to  encourage  enlistments  during  the 
war.  The  Massachusetts  Twenty-First,  Twenty-Fifth,  Thirty- 
Sixth,  and  Fifty-Fourth  Regiments  left  the  Agricultural  Grounds 
of  Worcester  for  the  war.  I  resided  in  the  hall  upon  the  grounds. 
As  these  regiments  left  the  grounds  I  announced  to  them  that  I 
should  keep  open  house  during  the  war,  and  any  soldier  would 
be  welcomed,  day  or  night,  to  my  hospitalities,  and  many  were 
the  times  I  arose  and  welcomed  these  defenders  of  my  country 


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as  they  were  homeward  bound,  by  reason  of  wounds  or  furlough. 
My  whole  soul  was  aroused  at  the  audacity  of  the  leaders  of  the 
rebellion,  and  its  among  the  pleasant  events  of  my  life  that  I  did 
all  I  could,  directly  and  indirectly,  to  enforce  the  laws  of  the 
land — embodied  as  they  were  in  the  platform  of  the  Republican 
party,  as  laid  down  in  this  city  of  Chicago  upon  the  nomination 
of  our  lamented  President  Abraham  Lincoln  in  1860.  The 
closing  scenes  of  1888, 1  rendered  by  voice  and  vote  all  the  power 
I  was  in  possession  of  to  oust  the  Democratic  president  and  seat 
in  his  place  our  worthy  president,  who,  I  hope,  will  guard  well 
the  government  which  has  overcome,  for  the  second  time,  the 
slave  power — who  never  dared  to  have  free  suffrage  extended  to 
the  entire  citizens  of  this  republic.  Long  may  he  live — much  of 
good  may  he  do — and  when  the  scenes  of  earth  shall  recede  from 
his  view,  may  he  go  on  to  the  grand  home  celestial. 

"  To  a  land  of  deathless  beauty, 

Where  no  shadows  dim  the  view; 
Where  are  many  shining  mansions, 
Waiting  for  the  kind  and  true." 

Is  the  prayer  of  his  friend  and  well-wisher,  and  that  of  the 
nation;  governed,  as  I  hope  it  will  ever  be,  by  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  party  as  now  understood,  henceforth,  now  and 
forever,  and  forevermore. 


ALONZO    RAWSON 

Was  born  in  Richmond,  Chesire  county,  New  Hampshire,  Febru- 
ary 28th,  1809.  His  father,  Jonathan,  Rawson,  was  a  merchant 
in  that  town  for  more  than  thirty  years,  and  was  elected  to  repre- 
sent the  town  in  the  legislature  of  New  Hampshire  for  a  number 
of  terms,  besides  holding  many  other  offices  of  trust  in  the  town. 
Alonzo  came  west  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1829,  where  he  resided 
for  about  three  years,  and  from  that  place  went  to  Louisville,  Ky., 
where  he  was  in  business  as  a  merchant  for  nearly  thirty  years, 
and  while  in  business  there  served  one  term  as  president  of  the 
Board  of  Trade,  and  as  a  director  of  one  of  the  leading  banks  for 
nearly  ten  years.  He  removed  to  New  York  City  in  1863,  and 


ISO  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

was  engaged  in  business  there  for  about  three  years,  and  from 
that  city  came  to  Chicago,  where  he  has  since  resided.  He  voted 
for  Gen.  W.  H.  Harrison  in  1840,  and  has  always  since  he  became 
a  voter  been  an  unwavering  Whig  and  Republican.  During  the 
Rebellion  he  was  an  outspoken  Union  man.  Edward  Rawson,  a 
native  of  England,  and  first  secretary  of  the  Colony  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  was  the  progenitor  of  his  family,  and  as  far  as  can 
be  ascertained,  of  all  bearing  the  name  of  Rawson  in  the  United 
States,  with  two  exceptions. 


ALANSON    REED. 

I  was  born  in  Warren,  Worcester  county,  Mass.,  November 
I4th,  1814,  my  father  being  a  farmer  of  New  England's  rugged 
hills.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  I  was  a  mechanic  in  the  piano  fao 
tories  of  Boston,  and  in  1840  was  appointed  one  of  the  vigilante 
committee  for  Ward  10.  After  hearing  our  Daniel  Webster  and 
and  Henry  Clay  speak  of  the  principles  of  the  Whig  party,  I 
worked  with  a  vim  to  help  elect  Gen.  Wm.  Henry  Harrison  in 
1840.  My  heart  and  vote  went  together  into  the  ballot-box. 
Success  crowned  our  efforts.  In  1842  I  moved  to  Ohio,  and  set- 
tled in  Columbus,  the  capitol  city.  In  1859  removed  to  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  and  in  1861,  owing  to  the  civil  war,  again  removed  to  Chi- 
cago, which  since  that  time  has  been  my  home.  My  last  presi- 
dential vote  I  gave  for  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison,  and  again 
success  was  with  our  party.  Were  I  to  live  seventy-four  years 
more  I  would  vote  on  that  line. 


HENRY    A.   REW 

Was  born  on  April  gth,  1813,  in  Bloomfield,  Ontario  county,  New 
York;  lived  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  until  1842,  when  he  came  to  Illi- 
nois. He  was  an  "  Old  Line  W7hig,"  and  voted  for  William 
Henry  Harrison  in  1840,  and  for  every  Whig  candidate  for  the 
presidency  until  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party,  and  has 
voted  for  every  nominee  of  that  party  until,  and  including  No- 
vember, 1888,  when  Benjamin  Harrison  was  the  man  of  his 
choice. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  iSl 

A.  SPENCER  REYNOLDS 

Was  born  in  Greenfield,  Saratoga  county,  New  York,  June  2ist, 
1819.  He  lived  in  that  county  until  August,  1838,  removing  to 
Jackson,  Michigan,  where  he  resided  until  1842.  He  voted  for 
William  Henry  Harrison  in  1840  at  Jackson;  in  June,  1842,  he 
returned  to  Ballston  Spa,  Saratoga  county,  New  York,  and  en- 
gaged in  the  mercantile  business.  He  remained  there  until  1846, 
when  he  moved  to  Oswego,  Kendall  county,  111.,  and  from  thence 
to  Chicago,  in  1855,  where  he  has  resided  ever  since,  voting  in 
1888  for  the  grandson  of  "  Old  Tippecanoe." 


WILLIAM    RIPLEY. 

The  father  of  the  writer  was  born  in  Connecticut,  May  27th, 
1782;  married  Susan  Bingham,  daughter  of  John  Bingham,  at 
Lisbon,  Conn.,  March  3 1st,  1805.  He  moved  to  Ellsworth,  Ohio, 
in  the  spring  of  1806  (requiring  seven  weeks  to  perform  the  jour- 
ney, as  at  that  day  there  were  no  public  conveyances).  They 
suffered  many  privations  and  hardships  for  several  years,  as  they 
were  among  the  early  pioneers  in  Trumble  county,  where  they 
settled — being  annoyed  more  or  less  by  Indians — who  still  re- 
mained in  that  portion  of  the  State. 

I  was  the  sixth  of  seven  children,  born  July  gth,  1818.  My 
father  was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  At  the  age  of  twelve  I  en- 
gaged as  a  clerk  in  a  country  store,  which  position  I  occupied 
until  I  myself  embarked  in  the  mercantile  business  at  Berlin 
Centre,  Ellsworth  and  Poland,  covering  a  period  of  sixteen  years. 
In  the  year  1854  I  moved  to  Madison,  Wisconsin,  and  at  once 
engaged  in  the  lumber  business,  having  for  a  partner  Mr.  Wm.  A. 
Mears.  After  a  residence  of  eleven  years  at  Madison,  following 
various  pursuits,  I  moved  to  Chicago,  May  1st,  1865,  (the  day 
our  lamented  Lincoln  lay  in  state  in  the  court  house)  and  have 
since  then  been  directly  and  indirectly  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business. 

July  18,  1839,  at  Ellsworth,  Ohio,  I  married  Ann  Eliza  Fitch — 
daughter  of  Richard  Fitch;  one  of  the  children  by  this  marriage, 
Orianna,  born  October  2,  1844,  married  Hampton  B.  Smith,  and 


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is  now  living  at  La  Crosse,  Wis.  August  7,  1848,  at  Ellsworth, 
Ohio,  I  married  my  second  wife,  B.  Eliza  Allen,  daughter  of  Asa 
W.  Allen — two  of  the  children  by  this  marriage,  Gordon  and 
Bradford  W.,  are  associated  with  me  in  the  lumber  business  at 
238  So.  Water  Street,  Chicago. 

Politically,  I  voted  the  first  time,  in  the  fall  of  1840  for  Gen. 
William  Henry  Harrison  for  president  of  the  United  States,  and 
the  last  time  for  the  grandson,  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison  in  the 
fall  of  1888.  By  this  record,  I  think  I  am  entitled  to  the  honor 
of  being,  by  lineage,  a  consistent  Republican.  I  could  not,  and 
would  not  know  how  to  be  a  Democrat. 


THOMAS  H.  ROGERS 

Was  born  in  the  State  of  Vermont,  town  of  Cavendish,  county  of 
Windsor,  on  the  loth  day  of  October,  1809.  In  1840  he  voted  for 
General  William  Henry  Harrison,  for  president,  in  Wampsville, 
town  of  Lenox,  Madison  county,  New  York.  In  1862  he  enlisted 
in  the  service  of  the  United  States  army,  and  at  the  battle  of 
Perryville,  Ky.,  was  captured  a  prisoner. 


THOMAS  ROBERTSON 

Was  born  in  Argyle,  Washington  county,*  on  the  2/th  of  August, 
181 1,  of  Scotch-Irish  parentage,  and  lived  with  his  father — working 
on  the  farm- — until  his  fifteenth  year.  He  then  went  to  Cambridge, 
and  served  a  regular  apprenticeship  at  the  tanning  and  currying 
business  with  his  uncle,  John  Robertson.  He  remained  in  Cam- 
bridge until  the  spring  of  1838,  when  he  went  to  Troy,  N.  Y.,  and 
formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother,  in  mercantile  business. 
There  he  married  Mary  Shaw,  of  Greenwich,  N.  Y.,  on  the  I4th 
day  of  May,  1840;  remained  there  until  the  fall  of  1848,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Lakeville,  Washington  county,  N.  Y.,  and  went  back  into 
his  old  •  business  of  tannery  and  currying,  and  grist  milling. 
Here  he  remained  for  thirty  years,  and  in  the  fall  of  1871  he 
sold  all  of  his  property — having  lost  his  wife  and  half  of  his 
family  within  about  two  years — and  started  for  the  far  West, 


\YM.  RIPLEY. 


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changing  about  from  place  to  place,  until  finally  he  came  to 
Chicago,  in  the  year  1881,  where  he  has  remained  ever  since. 
He  is  now  making  his  home  with  his  son,  A.  S.  Robertson  and 
his  family.  He  was  a  Whig  of  the  old  school;  voted  for  Henry 
Clay  for  president  in  1832,  and  William  Henry  Harrison  in  1836 
and  1840.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Associate  Church  in  early 
life,  and  has  endeavored  to  maintain  a  consistent  Christian 
character. 

SENECA  ALONZO  SANFORD 

Was  born  in  Shoram,  Vermont,  June  9,  1816.  Came  to  Defiance, 
Ohio,  in  1836,  where,  in  the  year  of  1840,  he  voted  for  William 
Henry  Harrison,  of  which  he  is  very  proud,  and  in  1888  for  Ben- 
jamin Harrison.  He  is  the  proud  posessor  of  a  clarinet — one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  years  old — which  was  used  in  the  cam- 
paign of  1840,  and  was  on  exhibition  in  the  club  room  of  the  Old 
Tippecanoe  Club. 

HENRY  SAYRS 

Son  of  Josiah  and  Sarah  Van  Kleeck  Sayrs,  was  born  in  Po'keep- 
sie,  New  York,  July  1st,  1819.  Received*  his  education  at  the 
Dutchess  Academy,  from  whence,  in  1836,  he  went  to  the  City 
of  New  York,  and  engaged  as  clerk  in  a  wholesale  grocery  house. 
On  September  17,  1839,  he  married  Miss  Sarah  C.  Lockwood,  of 
Newburgh  on  the  Hudson,  who,  as  time  rolled  on,  became 
widely  and  favorably  known  for  her  philanthropical  work.  Her 
biography,  to  1869,  is  contained  in  the  history  of  "The  Loyal 
People  of  the  Northwest."  She  died  on  the  2ist  of  April,  1888. 
In  1840,  Mr.  Sayrs  entered  the  wholesale  grocery  business  in 
his  own  name  in  the  City  of  New  York — soon  thereafter  taking 
a  partner,  when  the  firm  became  Sayrs  &  Storm,  and  remained  in 
said  business  until  1845,  wnen«  with  his  family,  he  moved  to  Mil- 
waukee, Wis.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business, 
operating  considerably  in  real  estate.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
common  council  in  i847~'48 — its  presiding  officer  and  acting 
mayor — and  was  a  delegate  to  the  Harbor  and  River  Convention 
held  in  Chicago  in  1848.  Before  the  convention  that  nominated 


HENRY  SAYRS. 


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him  for  the  legislature  of  Wisconsin  in  that  year,  he  distinctly 
affirmed,  that  if  elected,  he  -would  vote  for  no  candidate  for  U.  S. 
senator  (two  senators  were  to  be  chosen)  who  did  not  first  assure 
him,  over  his  signature,  that  if  elected,  he  would  introduce  and 
advocate  in  the  senate  of  the  United  States,  an  act  to  abolish 
slavery  in  the  District  of  Columbia. 

In  consequence  of  their  continual  ill  health,  Mr.  Sayrs  moved 
with  his  family  to  Johnstown,  Wis.,  in  1849,  where  he  engaged 
in  general  trade,  and  was  postmaster  under  President  Taylor.  He 
came  to  Chicago  in  1853,  and  entered  commercial  business;  was 
burned  out  at  54  and  56  Michigan  Avenue  in  the  general  confla- 
gration of  1871,  immediately  after  which  calamity  he  commenced 
importing  and  wholesaling  teas,  which  business  he  continued 
until  1884,  when,  after  forty-four  years  service  on  his  own 
account,  he  retired  from  active  pursuits. 

Beside  other  positions  of  honor  and  trust,  he  was  president  of 
the  Chicago  Wholesale  Grocers'  Exchange,  and  the  first  presi- 
dent of  the  Merchants'  Exchange;  president  of  the  Third  Ward 
Republican  Club  in  the  Hayes  and  Wheeler  campaign,  uniform- 
ing, at  his  own  expense,  a  company  of  one  hundred  wide-awakes, 
and  presenting  them  with  a  large  and  elegant  flag,  behind  which 
they  marched  to  victory,  under  the  name  of  Sayrs'  Guards.  Mr. 
Sayrs  was  an  ardent  Whig  until  the  party  north  merged  into  the 
Republican;  since  then  he  has  been  an  unswerving,  uncompromis- 
ing Republican.  His  first  vote  was  cast  for  "OldTippecanoe"- 
General  William  Henry  Harrison — thereafter  he  voted  for  Henry 
Clay,  Taylor,  Scott,  Fremont,  Lincoln  twice,  Grant  twice,  Hayes, 
Garfield,  Blaine  and  General  Benjamin  Harrison,  grandson  and 
inheritor  of  the  principles  of  "  Old  Tippecanoe." 


CHICAGO,  MAY  15,  1889. 

In  connection  with  the  foregoing  biographical  notice,  I  ask  the  privilege 
of  recording  here  my  admiration  of  the  character  of  Mrs.  Henry  Sayrs.  My 
long  acquaintance  with  whom,  in  her  efficient  service  rendered  to  me  during 
my  presidency  of  the  Soldiers'  Home,  through  and  after  the  war,  convinced 
me  that  she  was  the  very  embodiment  of  active,  practical  and  judicious 

charity. 

THOMAS  B.  BRYAN. 


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Was  born  March  5th,  1826;  a  native  of  the  village  of  Horath,  in 
the  Rhinish  Province,  Prussia;  arrived  in  New  York  on  the  I5th 
of  July,  1840,  after  a  stormy  passage  of  fifty-three  days.  On  the 
day  subsequent  to  their  arrival  Mr.  Schmidt's  father,  and  a  dozen 
of  his  companions,  declared  their  intentions  of  becoming  citizens 
of  their  adopted  country,  subsequently  making  their  declarations 
good  by  taking  out  their  naturalization  papers  and  giving  us  five 
boys  citizenship  rights.  About  a  month  after  the  party  removed 
to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  where  Mr.  Schmidt  had  his  first  experience 
in  a  presidential  campaign,  which,  by  reason  of  his  age,  consisted 
in  "  swelling  the  line,  hurrahing,  and  drinking  good  hard  cider  to 
the  health  and  prosperity  of  Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too."  In 
1846  he  removed  to  Chicago,  and  has  resided  here  ever  since. 
He  cast  his  first  vote  in  1847,  experiencing  considerable  difficulty 
in  so  doing,  as  he  was  a  Republican,  and  in  those  days  Republi- 
cans in  the  Seventh  Ward  found  it  hard  work  to  reach  the  ballot- 
box.  He  voted  for  Gen.  Benj.  Harrison  in  1888,  and  all  the 
Republican  candidates  in  the  interim. 


WINCHESTER   D.  SCOTT. 

I  was  born  in  Washington  county,  Ohio,  February  I4th,  1819, 
on  a  farm,  on  the  Muskingum  river,  one  mile  below  where  the 
town  of  Beverley  now  stands.  Lived  there  until  I  was  thirteen, 
then  moved  with  my  people  to  Etna,  in  Licking  county,  Ohio,  on 
the  line  of  the  National  Turnpike,  which  was  then  building. 
Was  taken  into  my  brother's  store  and  remained  two  years;  went 
to  Columbus,  Ohio,  to  learn  the  drug  business;  remained  about 
one  year;  after  that  went  to  school  and  sold  goods  in  Etna  and 
Columbus  until  1839,  when  I  went  into  a  store  at  Tiffin,  Ohio;  re- 
mained in  Tiffin  selling  goods  fifteen  years  on  my  own  account 
and  five  years  as  a  clerk,  until  1859,  when  I  moved  with  my  fam- 
ily to  the  town  of  Rulo,  in  Richardson  county,  Nebraska,  and 
engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising.  Removed  to  Chicago  in 
1880  and  established  a  patent  medicine  business.  While  at  Tiffin 
I  was  selected  as  a  delegate  to  the  State  Convention  at  Columbus, 


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Ohio,  February  22,  1840,  that  recommended  Gen.  William  Henry 
Hcrrison  for  president.  Was  an  active  Whig  thereafter,  being 
made  chairman  of  the  Chippevva  Club,  and  on  various  committees 
in  the  campaigns  of  Generals  Scott,  Taylor  and  Fremont.  While 
in  Nebraska  was  a  delegate  to  the  first  State  Convention  at 
Platsmouth,  which  authorized  the  people  to  vote  for  or  against 
coming  in  as  a  State — also  to  nominate  Republican  candidates 
for  State  officers.  Was  then  made  chairman  of  the  State  Execu- 
tive Committee  for  Richardson  county,  and  canvassed  it,  which 
gave  two  hundred  and  fifty  majority  for  State. 

In  1872  was  elected  a  State  Senator  from  the  First  District, 
and  in  1873  was  elected  a  Regent  of  the  State  University  of  Ne- 
braska. During  my  twenty  years  residence  there  I  was  in  some 
minor  public  capacity  nearly  the  whole  time,  such  as  member  of 
School  Board,  Mayor  of  Rulo,  Grand  or  Traverse  Juryman  in  the 
Federal  and  State  Courts.  Was  made  State  agent  and  superin- 
tended the  building  of  the  first  ten  miles  of  the  Burlington  & 
Southern  Railroad  (now  the  Atchison  &  Nebraska),  of  which  or- 
ganization I  was  a  charter  member.  During  the  war  we  saw 
rough  times,  there  being  no  sure  mode  of  egress  or  ingress,  and 
no  markets  for  the  first  three  years,  and  the  country  was  overrun 
by  bands  of  thieves.  We  organized  a  Union  party  for  mutual 
protection,  and  for  political  purposes,  which  we  maintained  dur- 
ing the  war. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  a  great  change  came.  Our  river  was 
opened  to  traffic,  we  came  in  as  a  State,  and  the  railroad  com- 
menced to  build,  emigrants  came  flocking  in  and  locating,  chang- 
ing the  scene  from  one  of  destitution,  doubt  and  uncertainty  to 
one  of  the  greatest  prosperity. 


WILLIAM  SKINNER 

Was  born  June  9,  1805,  in  Franklin  county,  Penn.;  was  raised  on 
a  farm,  and  in  1818  went  to  learn  the  tanners  trade,  and  in  1823 
bought  the  tan  yard  and  stock  there.  In  1831  started  a  general 
store  in  Holidaysburg,  Pa.;  in  1834  went  west,  dealing  in  land 
and  cattle;  in  .1862  moved  from  Lake  county,  Ind.,  to  Chicago, 


WM.  SKINNER. 


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where  he  has  been  engaged  in  grocery — general  commission — 
business,  until  burnt  out  in  the  big  fire,  October  9,  1871.  In  1875 
moved  to  Wisconsin,  to  oversee  his  grist  mill  for  four  years, 
sold  out,  and  returned  to  Chicago  in  1880,  where  he  has  lived 
most  of  the  time  since  then,  and  is  still  hale  and  hearty  at  the 
age  of  eighty-four.  Has  four  sons  and  a  daughter  living. 


WILLIAM  D.  SEARLES. 

I  was  born  in  Fairfield  county,  Ohio,  December  8,  1808; 
learned  the  tinner's  trade  in  Lancaster;  married  and  located  in 
Tiffin,  Ohio,  in  1831;  went  into  business  then,  and  remained  until 
1865,  when  I  moved  to  Rulo,  Richardson  county,  Nebraska, 
where  I  engaged  in  the  house-furnishing  business.  I  was 
appointed  postmaster  of  Rulo,  the  same  year,  and  held  it  until 
1874,  when  I  resigned,  and  moved  to  the  City  of  Buffalo,  State  of 
New  York,  since  which  time  I  have  not  been  engaged  in  business, 
living  part  of  the  time  in  Buffalo  and  part  of  the  time  in  Chicago. 
While  at  Tiffin,  I  supported  the  Whig  and  Republican  parties. 
Voted  for  William  Henry  Harrison,  for  president,  in  1840,  and 
have  taken  part  at  the  various  Whig  and  Republican  campaigns 
since  that  time,  my  last  vote  being  for  Benjamin  Harrison. 


JAMES    SHOURDS 

Is  of  English  ancestry,  his  father  having  been  born  in  1762,  but 
soon  removed  to  America,  where,  in  1807,  on  January  22,  at  Lit- 
tle Egg  Harbor,  New  York,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born. 
Later  the  family  removed  to  Cayuga  county,  and  Mr.  Shourds 
remained  there  until  he  reached  his  majority,  when  he  started  out 
to  "shift  for  himself,"  living  at  various  places  in  Ohio  and  New 
York,  and  1840  found  him  a  resident  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  voted  for  Gen.  WTilliam  H.  Harrison.  After  twenty-five  years' 
residence  in  Rochester  he  located  in  Chicago,  where  he  still  re- 
sides, hale  and  hearty,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two,  and  where  he, 
in  common  with  one  son  and  other  family  connections,  voted 
straight  for  Harrison  and  Morton  "too." 


D.  B.  STEDMAN. 


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DANIEL  BAXTER  STEDMAN 

Is  a  descendant  of  Isaac  Stedman,  who  came  to  America  in  his 
ship  "Elizabeth,"  arriving  in  the  year  1635,  first  settling  at 
Scituate,  Massachusetts,  removing  in  1650  to  Muddy  River  (now 
Brookline),  Mass.,  where  he  did  business  as  a  merchant.  D.  B. 
Stedman,  son  of  Josiah  Stedman,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  on 
the  i8th  day  of  April,  1817.  Commenced  business  in  1837  as 
importer  of  china  and  earthenware,  under  the  firm  of  Atkins  & 
Stedman,  afterward  D.  B.  Stedman  &  Co.,  which  business  he  was 
in  until  the  disastrous  fire  in  Boston  in  1872. 

He  voted  in  Boston  in  the  year  1840  for  Gen.  William  Henry 
Harrison  for  president,  and  at  Chicago,  in  1888,  for  Gen.  Benja- 
min Harrison,  and  has  always — without  an  exception — been  an 
ardent  supporter  of  the  Whig  and  Republican  parties.  He  was 
elected  Representative  to  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  for  the 
session  of  1866  and  1867. 


DAVID  SHEPPARD  SMITH,  M.  D., 

Was  born  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  on  the  28th  of  April,  1816. 
His  father,  Isaac  Smith,  was  a  native  of  Salem  county,  in  that 
State.  His  mother's  family  name  was  Wheaton,  of  Welch 
descent.  His  parents  were  noted  for  marked  decision  of  char- 
acter. The  son  inherited  a  robust  constitution  and  received  ex- 
cellent youthful  training,  and  feels  especially  indebted  to  the 
influence  of  his  mother  for  his  moral  and  intellectual  inclinations. 
He  very  early  conceived  and  strove  for  a  high  order  of  mental 
culture,  and  evinced  an  ardent  desire  to  study  the  healing  art, 
and  at  the  age' of  seventeen  years  entered  as  a  student  of  medi- 
cine in  the  office  of  Dr.  Isaac  S.  Mulford.  He  attended  three 
full  terms  of  lectures  at  the  Jefferson  Medical  College,  in  Phila- 
delphia, and  graduated  from  that  institution  in  1836.  That  col- 
lege was  then,  as  it  is  now,  one  of  the  foremost  medical  schools 
in  the  country,  and  its  diploma  could  only  be  earned  by  genuine 
merit.  Armed  with  this  diploma  and  a  determination  to  succeed, 
the  young  physician  came  West, .and  settled  for  practice  in  the 
then  small  town  of  Chicago.  In  1837  he  married  Miss  Rebecca 


D.  S.  SMITH,  PRESIDENT. 


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Ann  Dennis,  formerly  of  Fredonia,  N.  Y.  The  marriage  has 
been  blessed  with  four  children,  two  of  whom  survive,  the  eldest 
—Mrs.  Whitehead — widow  of  the  late  Major  F.  F.  Whitehead; 
the  other — Caroline — the  wife  of  J.  L.  Ely,  of  the  city  of  New 
York. 

During  a  visit  in  Camden,  Dr.  Smith  became  deeply  interested 
in  investigating  the  then  novel  doctrines  of  Hahnemann  on 
homeopathy,  and  procured  all  the  works  he  could  gather  on  that 
subject.  These  books  he  studied  assiduously.  In  1842  he  re- 
turned to  Chicago,  imbued  with  full  confidence,  from  what  he  had 
learned  by  practical  experience  and  observation,  in  the  doctrines 
of  Hahnemann,  and  the  following  year  he  fully  adopted  that 
system  in  his  practice,  and  was  the  first  physician  to  introduce  it 
west  of  the  lakes.  It  grew  rapidly  in  public  favor,  and  Dr. 
Smith  had  more  calls  for  his  professional  services  than  he  could 
respond  to.  Other  practitioners  were  attracted  to  his  side,  and 
soon  the  advocates  of  the  new  school  of  medicine  formed  a  med- 
ical body  whose  power  has  kept  pace  with  other  great  factors  in 
the  production  of  wonderful  Chicago.  Homeopathy,  no  longer 
an  experiment,  has  indeed  taken  deep  hold  on  the  convictions  of 
the  loftiest  intellectual  powers  and  the  noblest  personal  worth, 
and  now  challenges  the  considerate  judgment  of  the  civilized 
world.  Dr.  D.  S.  Smith  has  justly  won  for  himself  the  appella- 
tion of  the  "  Father  of  Homeopathy"  in  the  West.  The  ranking 
physician  of  both  the  schools  of  practice  in  Chicago,  he  procured 
from  the  Illinois  Legislature  of  1854-5,  the  charter  of  the  Hahne- 
mann Medical  College  in  Chicago,  and  wrote  the  original  draft 
of  this  charter  in  the  law  office  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  He  held 
the  position  of  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  college 
from  its  commencement  until  1871,  and  after  the  death  of  Dr. 
Small,  his  successor,  he  was  again  elected  to  the  presidency.  In 
recognition  of  his  eminent  services,  an  honorary  degree  was  con- 
ferred on  him  in  1856  by  the  Homeopathic  Medical  College  of 
Cleveland,  Ohio.  In  1857  he  was  elected  secretary  of  the  Amer- 
ican Institute  of  Homeopathy;  in  1858  he  was  chosen  president, 
and  in  1865  treasurer  of  this  national  association.  In  1866  he 
visited  Furope,  and  while  there  studied  the  hospitals  and  colleges 


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with  keen  observation  and  profit,  receiving  the  friendliest  atten- 
tions and  marks  of  distinguished  consideration  from  men  of 
learning  and  eminence.  In  1867  he  returned  to  Chicago  with 
invigorated  health,  and  renewed  his  extensive  practice  of  his 
profession. 

He  has  witnessed  the  growth  of  Chicago  from  the  time  it  was 
a  mere  hamlet  until  it  has  become  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
important  cities  in  the  Union,  and  his  influence  and  varied  public 
benefactions  are  indelibly  stamped  upon  its  history.  He  is  a 
man  of  religious  convictions,  and  a  respected  member  in  the 
worship  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church — a  man  of  unques- 
tioned integrity,  simple  in  his  habits,  dignified,  urbane,  generous 
and  hospitable,  an  attentive  listener,  a  ready  debater,  a  strict 
disciplinarian,  was  president  of  the  Second  Ward  Republican 
Club  in  its  palmiest  days,  and  is  now  the  honored  and  popular 
president  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago. 


ENOS  SLOSSON. 

The  existence  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago  is  due 
to  this  old  patriot,  who,  so  soon  as  General  Benjamin  Harrison 
had  been  placed  in  nomination  for  president  by  the  Republican 
National  Convention  of  1888,  set  to  work  with  enthusiasm  to  or- 
ganize an  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  going  about  it  in  a  business  way, 
and  with  a  measure  of  success  beyond  his  anticipations.  How 
well  he  did  let  this  completed  volume  tell. 

Born  February  i6th,  1817,  at  Berkshire,  Tioga  county,  New 
York,  from  the  best  of  thorough  American  lineage,  his  whole  life 
has  been  more  or  less  identified  with  the  good  of  our  common 
country,  and  his  best  efforts  have  been  directed  toward  the  suc- 
cess of  the  Whig  and  its  legitimate  successor — the  Republican 
party. 

The  grandfather  of  Mr.  Slosson,  who  was  also  Enos  Slosson, 
emigrated  from  England  in  the  stirring  times  which  preceeded 
the  outbreak  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  settling  at  Lenox,  Mass- 
achusetts. Events  at  Lexington  and  Bunker  Hill  aroused  the 
patriotism  of  the  country,  Slosson  shouldered  his  old  flint-lock, 


IQO  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

and  for  God  and  his  country  fought  manfully  and  well;  was  pro- 
moted in  the  army  to  the  Captaincy  for  meritorious  conduct,  till 
at  Yorktown  the  crushing  defeat  and  surrender  of  Cornwallis 
opened  the  gates  of  peace  and  American  independence.  Mr. 
Slosson  also  shared  the  honor  to  be  under  direct  command  of 
Gen.  Washington,  and  of  sharing  in  the  privations  of  Valley 
Forge.  After  the  war  he  settled  in  Berkshire,  a  valley  in  the 
State  of  New  York,  where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in 
1817. 

Enos  Slosson,  the  father  of  the  present  Enos  Slosson,  was 
born  in  Massachusetts  in  1782,  and  although  he  died  at  the  age 
of  thirty-eight,  had  attained  prominence  as  a  soldier,  holding  a 
Colonel's  commission  in  the  War  of  1812,  signed  by  Daniel  D. 
Tompkins,  the  famous  WTar  Governor  of  New  York.  He  was 
also  elected  to  Congress,  but  died  before  taking  his  seat.  The 
grandfather  of  Enos  Slosson  the  third,  on  his  mother's  side,  came 
also  from  Old  England  to  Connecticut,  where  he,  too,  joined  the 
Revolutionary  army,  being  in  many  battles  promoted  to  the  Cap- 
taincy; sharing  also  in  the  privations  of  the  memorable  winter  at 
Valley  Forge  with  Washington,  and  participated  in  the  surren- 
der of  Cornwallis  at  Yorktown. 

Enos  Slosson,  the  third  of  the  same  name,  engaged  in  com- 
mercial pursuits  when  but  fourteen  years  of  age,  and  has  ever 
been  a  commercial  man,  being  successful  in  business.  For 
eighteen  years  he  was  of  and  with  the  firm  of  Parkhurst  & 
Slosson;  and  at  its  dissolution  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade,  and 
on  the  Stock  Board  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.  He  voted  for  Gen.  Wil- 
liam Henry  Harrison  at  Elkland,  Tioga  county,  Penn.,  in  1840. 
He  soon  after  was  appointed  postmaster  by  Gen.  Taylor,  then 
president,  at  Osceola,  Tioga  county,  Penn. — now  a  good  sized 
town — with  whose  interests  he  was  greatly  identified  in  building 
up,  and  giving  it  the  name  of  Osceola. 

At  this  time  in  the  Twelfth  Pennsylvania  Congressional  Dis- 
trict he  performed  another  very  great  deed  for  future  genera- 
tions— leading  along  down  the  many  ages,  resulting  in  none 
other  than  generous  and  humane  by  the  nation,  by  bringing  for- 
ward the  Hon.  Galusia  A.  Grow  as  the  successor  of  the  distin- 


ENOS  SLOSSON,  FIRST  VICE-PRESIDENT. 


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guished  author  of  the  great  anti-slavery  proviso  for  Texas — 
(Hon.  David  VVilmot) — for  a  seat  in  Congress,  the  motion  com- 
ing up  before  the  convention,  of  which  Enos  Slosson  was  presi- 
dent in  the  Twelfth  District.  The  ballots  were  many  without  a 
majority.  At  last  the  unanimous  voice  of  the  convention  called 
for  a  descision  of  the  Chair.  The  chairman  gave  the  casting 
vote  for  Hon.  Galusia  A.  Grow,  being  equivalent  to  an  election, 
as  was  proven  soon  after.  Upon  the  assemblage  of  Congress 
Grow  was  elected  Speaker.  When  the  committee  reported  the 
bill  in  the  House,  he  left  the  Chair  and  made  a  vigorous  speech 
thereon.  The  bill  passed;  went  to  the  Senate;  it  was  approved, 
lingered  but  a  short  time  there;  was  sent  to  the  executive — the 
great  Abraham  Lincoln,  President  of  the  United  States.  He 
only  required  a  single  glance,  and  seizing  his  pen  wrote  the  word 
"  Approved,"  with  Abraham  Lincoln  thereunder,  after  once 
being  vetoed  by  James  Buchanan.  It  was  a  law  of  the  nation 
that  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  the  national  domain  was  al- 
lotted to  each  landless  man  and  woman,  and  up  to  this  date  a 
law  of  the  nation — thanks  to  its  early  friends. 

A  great  and  spontaneous  demonstration  was  successfully  in- 
augurated at  Osceola,  Pa.,  in  the  campaign  of  the  Free  Soil 
party,  composed  of  Democrats  and  Whigs,  in  southern  New 
York  and  northern  Pennsylvania.  It  was  a  gathering  at  once  the 
largest,  the  best,  the  most  opportune,  and  the  first  held  by  the 
Free  Soil  party  in  the  republic — culminating  in  the  establishment 
of  the  great  Republican  party.  Its  importance  was  widely  recog- 
nized and  acknowledged  by  the  press,  conspicuously  the  New 
York  Tribune,  the  great  leading  Republican  journal  of  the  world  at 
that  time.  Think  what  has  been  the  destiny  of  our  country,  in- 
fluenced a  thousand  times  to  greatness  by  the  Republican  party, 
which  sprung  from  the  small,  impulsive  Osceola  move,  seconded 
by  David  Wilmot,  and  eulogized  by  Horace  Greeley,  with  the 
mighty  and  immense  following  of  them  both.  Think  of  the 
masterly  achievements  of  this  host  of  freedom;  the  manumitting 
of  three  millions  of  slaves  and  the  conquering  of  eighteen  mil- 
lions of  enemies;  the  reinstatement  of  a  united  government  of 
forty-two  millions  (now  sixty  millions)  of  people,  and  the  inaug- 


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uration  of  the  best  system  of  finance  the  world  ever  witnessed, 
the  propagation  of  a  free  school  idea,  popularizing  our  form  of 
government,  and  enhancing  the  wide-spread  prosperity  of  the 
nation.  It  was  greatly  through  his  solicitations  that  Gov.  Alex- 
ander Ramsey,  the  first  Territorial  Governor  of  Minnesota,  ac- 
cepted the  appointment  from  Taylor;  and  he  was  also  deeply 
engaged  in  engineering  Minnesota  into  the  Union. 

Mr.  Slosson  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Minnesota,  to  which  State  he  removed  some  time  previous. 
Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  Rebellion  he  removed  to  Chicago, 
where  he  was  also  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  has  ever  since  resided, 
always  with  the  Republican  party  on  every  question,  and  sub- 
scribing largely  to  the  first  government  7-30  bonds — the  money 
going  to  the  army  boys  at  the  front — an  honest  man,  a  good  citi- 
zen, well-to-do  financially,  and  surrounded  by  hundreds  of  de- 
voted friends.  His  last  days  will  assuredly  be  peaceful  ones  as 
a  valued  citizen  of  Chicago. 


ALBERT  SOPER 

Was  born  the  9th  of  January,  1812,  at  Rome,  Oneida  county, 
N.  Y.  He  secured  a  good  common  school  education,  under  in- 
struction of  Mr.  Oliver  D.  Grosvenor,  then  in  charge  of  the  prin- 
cipal academy.  Among  the  schoolmates  of  that  day  and  class 
are  found  the  names  of  Judge  Anson  S.  Miller,  now  of  California, 
the  late  Norman  B.  Judd,  of  Chicago,  Thomas  Wright,  of  Rome, 
and  Henry  R.  Hart,  of  Utica.  He  began  business  in  early  life  as 
a  contractor  and  builder,  and  soon  afterwards  established  the  first 
lumber  and  planing  mill  business,  in  which  he  continued,  at  Rome, 
N.  Y.,  until  1866,  when  he  came  to  Chicago  and  organized  the 
lumber  business  with  which  he  is  still  connected.  He  is  president 
of  the  Soper  Lumber  Co.,  of  Chicago,  besides  being  interested  in 
the  Menominee  Bay  Shore  Lumber  Co.,  of  Menominee,  Mich., 
and  the  Michigan  Shingle  Co.,  of  Muskegon,  Mich.  He  has  also 
been  for  several  years  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Hide  &  Leather 
National  Bank,  of  Chicago.  In  the  spring  of  1837,  being  in  im- 
paired health,  and  having  a  desire  to  see  something  of  the  then 


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great  West,  he  accepted  an  invitation  from  his  former  instructor, 
Mr.  Grosvenor,  to  accompany  him  on  a  trip  thereto.  So,  taking 
a  packet  boat  on  the  Erie  Canal,  that  being  the  only  rapid  transit 
available  at  that  day,  and  passing  through  Syracuse,  Lyons,  Pal- 
myra, Rochester,  Lockport,  and  other  thriving  villages,  they  in 
due  time  arrived  at  Buffalo,  from  whence  they  took  steamer  for 
the  Upper  Lakes,  stopping  at  all  places,  receiving  and  discharg- 
ing passengers  and  freight  between  Buffalo  and  Macinac;  thence 
to  Green  Bay,  Sheboygan,  Milwaukee,  Racine,  Southport  (now 
Kenosha),  Little  Fort  (now  Waukegan),  being  detained  at  each 
of  these  places — deliberately,  discharging  cargo — finally  arriving 
at  the  pier  at  Chicago.  No  busses  or  cabs — passengers  were  com- 
pelled to  grab  their  carpet-bags,  and  wade  a  long  distance 
through  slush  and  mud  before  reaching  terra-firma,  and  then,  to 
reach  the  Lake  House,  on  Rush  Street,  near  the  river,  had  to 
walk  a  single  plank.  The  Lake  House  was  just  being  completed 
as  the  best  hotel  in  the  place,  and  the  "  North  Side  "  was  the 
favorite.  Having  stopped  over  a  few  days,  our  travelers  were 
not  favorably  impressed  with  the  situation.  Streets  were  not 
graded,  and,  at  sections,  some  of  the  most  important  of  them 
were  impassable  for  teams,  and  boards  were  stuck  up  in  their 
midst  inscribed:  "No  Bottom  Here!"  The  town  was  a  swamp, 
intermingled  with  sloughs,  bull-frogs,  malaria,  and — some  adven- 
turers— an  uninteresting,  uninviting  place — its  denizens  looked 
disappointed,  tired,  woe-begone,  as  though  they  had  got  to  the 
end  of  their  purse,  or  did  not  know  where  else  to  go;  and  those 
of  them  who  owned  an)rthing  wanted  to  sell  out.  Except  via. 
lake  it  was  a  difficult  place  to  get  away  from,  of  which  fact  Mr. 
Soper  and  friend  had  ample  evidence,  for,  wishing  to  view  some 
of  the  adjacent  farming  country,  they  started  in  a  lumber  wagon 
and  soon  after  crossing  a  bridge  at  Lake  Street  came  to  thick, 
muddy  water,  through  which,  from  one  to  two  feet  in  depth,  they 
were  compelled  to  travel  most  of  the  way  to  Widow  Berry's 
Point,  now  the  beautiful  suburb,  Riverside.  From  there  they 
went  on  through  mud  until  they  arrived  at  Joliet,  where  they 
were  agreeably  surprised  to  find  so  promising  and  eligibly  lo- 
cated a  town,  surrounded  by  fertile  lands. 


ALBERT  SOPER,  TREASURER. 


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Democracy  ruled  in  Chicago,  in  Illinois,  and  in  the  nation,  and 
the  full  force  of  Jackson's  unfortunate  administration  was  being 
felt — the  bubble  had  burst,  and  as  speculation  in  real  estate  had 
thus  far  been  the  specific  industry  of  Chicago,  the  laborers  in  that 
vineyard  were  now  out  of  employment,  and  no  danger  of  strikes 
apprehended.  However,  as  whisky  cost  only  ten  cents  per  gal- 
lon, the  numerous  saloons  run  a  lively  competition  for  Michigan 
"Wild  Cat"  money,  that  constituting  most  of  the  circulating 
medium  of  the  northwest.  Van  Buren  was  President,  represent- 
ing a  party  opposed  to  internal  improvement  among  the  States, 
and  as  there  was  no  money  in  the  National  Treasury,  he  ordered 
the  sale,  by  auction,  of  the  dredging  machines,  and  all  other  ma- 
chinery that  had  been  purchased  and  used  for,  and  was  still 
needed  to  dredge  the  harbor  and  river  of  Chicago,  and  they  were 
sold  at  a  great  sacrifice.  The  town,  the  State,  and  the  nation 
were  alike  bankrupt,  and  consequently  without  credit.  The  bonds 
of  the  State  were  almost  valueless.  The  general  outlook  was 
discouraging,  and  the  wildest  imagination  could  never  have 
dreamed  that  the  mire  called  Chicago,  from  which  the  tourists  de- 
parted on  their  return  home  in  1837,  would,  by  any  freak  of  cir- 
cumstances, become  fifty-two  years  thereafter  (having  meantime 
in  one  year,  viz.:  in  1871,  been  nearly  destroyed  by  fire  at  a 
loss  of  $200,000,000  of  property)  the  second  city  in  population, 
magnificence  and  business  in  the  United  States. 

In  1837  Mr.  Soper  was  married  to  Esther  Farquharson,  of 
Rome,  N.  Y.  They  recently  celebrated  their  golden  wedding, 
which  was  attended  by  their  children,  grandchildren  and  many 
friends.  Seven  children  have  been  born  to  them,  of  whom  five 
are  still  living — Arthur  W.  Soper,  of  New  York  City;  Mrs.  Geo. 
Merrill,  of  Eau  Claire,  Wis.;  Alex.  C.,  and  James  P.  Soper,  of 
Chicago,  and  Mrs.  Wm.  Penn  Smith,  of  Eureka,  Cal. 

In  politics  Mr.  Albert  Soper  was  an  unswerving  Whig  until 
the  formation  of  the  Republican  party,  since  which  time  he  has 
been  loyal  and  devoted  to  its  principles.  He  voted  for  William 
Henry  Harrison  in  1836  and  1840.  Was  one  of  a  large  delegation 
who  went  from  Rome,  via.  the  Erie  Canal,  to  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  to 
attend  the  grand  State  rally  of  the  Harrisonians  at  that  place. 


ALAXSOX   REED. 


204  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

Such  an  enthusiastic  assemblage  had  never  been  known  in  the 
State.  With  log-cabins,  flags,  banners,  and  numerous  bands  of 
music,  the  delegations  moved  up  the  hill  to  hear  Hon.  W.  H. 
Seward,  Gen.  Baker,  of  New  Hampshire,  and  others,  who,  with 
their  arguments  and  eloquence,  contributed  to  bring  us  a  great 
victory.  He  voted  for  Henry  Clay  in  1844,  and  for  every  Whig 
or  Republican  candidate  for  President  of  the  United  States  since, 
and  November  6th,  1888,  for  Benjamin  Harrison  for  the  same 
high  office.  Mr.  Soper  is  the  treasurer  of  the  Chicago  Tippe- 
canoe  Club. 


CALVIN   SHAW 

Was  born  in  Plymouth  county,  Mass.,  on  the  -    —  day  of  - 


,  and  moved  to  Ohio  in  the  year  1839.     His  first  vote 

was  cast  at  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  in  1840,  for  Gen.  William  Henry 
Harrison,  and  attended  a  very  large  convention  that  was  ad- 
dressed by  General  William  Henry  Harrison,  during  that  cam- 
paign, and  was  one  of  a  company  of  young  men  who  acted  as  an 
escort.  Mr.  Shaw  voted  for  every  Whig  up  to  the  birth  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  has  since  then  voted  for  the  candidates  of 
the  latter,  including  Gen.  Harrison  in  1888.  He  lived  in  Ohio 
until  1887,  when  he  moved  to  Chicago,  and  has  resided  here  ever 
since. 


BENJAMIN  SMITH 

Was  born  in  Ridgefield,  Fairfield  county,  Conn.,  January  12,  1815. 
His  parents,  Amos  and  Sarah  (Keeler)  Smith,  were  known  far 
and  near  throughout  the  country  as  one  of  the  oldest  hotel- 
keepers  in  the  State,  on  the  site  that  his  father,  John,  before  him, 
kept  until  the  close  of  his  life.  His  grandfather,  Ebenezer,  was 
one  of  the  original  thirty  settlers  of  the  town,  receiving  this  with 
a  tract  of  land  as  his  portion  of  the  township,  purchased  from  the 
survivors  in  September,  1708,  The  company  selected  a  ridge  of 
land  in  the  central  portion,  some  eight  hundred  feet  above  Long 
Island  Sound,  fifteen  miles  distant,  which  it  overlooked.  This 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  2C5 

property  never  left  the  Smith  family,  being  yet  occupied  by  the 
younger  brother,  Samuel,  and  sister,  Emma,  who  married  George 
Smith. 

Benjamin  remained  home — working  on  the  farm — till  seven- 
teen years  old,  when  he  left  to  learn  the  tailor's  trade,  which  he 
finished  in  the  city  of  New  Haven.  In  the  fall  of  1837  he  came 
to  Chicago,  and  with  J.  W.  Hooker,  engaged  in  the  grocery  trade, 
on  Lake  street.  In  August,  1838,  he  wras  married  to  Rachael 
Van  Nortwick,  the  daughter  of  William  Van  Nortwick,  in 
Batavia,  Kane  county,  111.  The  result  of  this  union  has  been 
four  daughters — the  eldest,  Sarah  I.  Clarim,  the  wife  of  Doctor 
Edgar  D.  Swain;  the  second — Martha  Marie — is  the  wife  of 
Daniel  B.  Andrews;  the  others  died  young. 

While  with  Mr.  Hooker,  he  traded  for  a  lot,  fifty  by  eighty 
feet,  on  north-west  corner  of  Dearborn  and  Washington  streets, 
and  built  a  comfortable  home  on  it,  but  after  residing  a  few 
years  on  it,  lost  it  by  engaging  in  business  with  Joseph  Johnston. 
In  1846,  purchasing  a  patent  reaping  machine,  commenced  the 
manufacture  of  the  same,  and  after  a  trial  it  was  found  worthless, 
but  by  making  changes  and  improvements,  succeeded  in  making 
a  successful  reaping  machine.  In  1846,  he  made  the  first  success- 
ful crooked  sycle,  cutting  it  himself  after  having  it  forged  out  of 
steel  and  iron.  In  the  fall  of  1847,  ne  removed  to  Batavia,  Kane 
county,  built  a  shop,  and  continued  to  manufacture  till  1857-- 
successfully  with  all  the  reaping  machines  that  came  into  use. 
Returning  to  Chicago  soon  after,  built  a  home  on  Peoria  street, 
between  Lake  and  Randolph  streets,  where  he  resided  until  1870, 
when,  disposing  of  that  home,  removed  to  63  Aberdeen  street, 
corner  of  Aberdeeen,  where  he  still  resides,  practically  retired 
from  business. 

W.  G.  SMITH 

Was  born  in  New  Haven,  Rutland  county,  September  6th,  1816, 
and  resided  in  Sudbury,  Vt.,  in  1836,  where  he  took  an  active  part 
in  the  unsuccessful  canvass  of  Gen.  Harrison;  and  in  1840  worked 
and  voted  for  the  successful  election  of  that  gentleman.  In  1888 


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Mr.  Smith   resided   at  Wheaton,  111.,  and   worked   and  voted  for 
Benjamin  Harrison,  and  was  inexpressibly  pleased  at  the  result. 


ICHABOD   STODDARD 

Was  born  April  I4th,  1808,  in  the  county  of  Leeds,  Province  of 
Ontario,  Canada.  In  1837  he  removed  to  Illinois,  later  residing 
in  Porter  county,  Indiana,  where,  in  1840,  he  cast  his  first  vote  as 
an  American  citizen  for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison,  and  again 
— forty-eight  years  thereafter — cast  another  ballot  for  the  grand- 
son— Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison — this  time  in  Illinois.  Is  enthusi- 
astic over  the  Tippecanoe  Club. 


GEN.  ALEX.  MILLER  STOUT 

Was  born  January  8,  1820,  near  Shelby ville,  Shelby  county,  Ky. 
His  father  was  a  soldier  of  the  War  of  1812,  and  three  of  his 
family  were  officers  in  the  Revolutionary  army.  His  early  life 
was  spent  on  the  farm.  Was  educated  in  Bardstown,  Ky.,  finish- 
ing his  course  in  1840.  Worked  hard  for  Gen.  W.  H.  Harrison's 
election,  and  attended  his  inauguration.  He  completed  his  study 
of  law  at  Cambridge  University,  and  was  city  attorney  at  Louis- 
ville. From  1857  to  1861,  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  war,  he 
volunteered  his  services,  and  with  the  rank  of  Colonel  engaged 
in  the  recruiting  service,  going  to  the  front  shortly  after  as  Col- 
onel of  the  1 7th  Kentucky  Infantry.  He  was  at  Donaldson, 
Shiloh,  Chicamauga,  Atlanta,  siege  of  Nashville,  Franklin,  and 
elsewhere,  coming  out  of  service  with  a  commission  as  Brevet- 
Brieradier-General  of  Volunteers.  Had  his  horse  shot  under  him 

o 

at  Donaldson.  His  son  was  killed  at  Shiloh,  and  he  himself  was 
severely  wounded  in  the  same  fight.  Subsequently  he  was  elec- 
ted Representative  in  the  Legislature  of  Kentucky,  and  nomina- 
ted by  a  Republican  caucus  as  Speaker  of  the  House.  He  was 
also,  from  1866  to  1868  acting  Commissioner  in  charge  of  the 
Patent  Office,  subsequently  resigning  that  position  to  practice 
"  patent  law."  He  moved  to  Chicago  in  1879,  and  like  all  the 
rest  of  the  "  Tippecanoes,"  voted  for  Gen.  Benj.  Harrison  in  1888. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  2QJ 

JOHN  HENRY  TAYLOR 

Was  born  near  Little  Beaver  Falls,  Columbia  county,  State  of 
Ohio,  February  26,  1818.  He  received  his  education  at  Rutledge, 
and  commenced  his  business  career  at  fourteen  years  of  age  as 
bookkeeper  in  a  paper  mill.  In  1843,  the  family  moved  to 
Steubenville,  Ohio,  where  his  father  and  himself  were  employed 
in  the  paper  mills  at  that  point,  the  heads  of  which  institution 
were  all  ardent  for  protection  of  American  industry,  and  sup- 
porters of  Henry  Clay  in  his  American  system.  Mr.  Taylor 
through  these  associations  inherited  the  political  opinions  as 
proclaimed  by  the  Whig  and  Republican  parties.  He  embarked 
in  business  on  his  own  account  in  1836,  but  after  the  panic  of 
1837  he  became  pedagogue,  subsequently  acting  superintendant 
of  the  Steubenville,  Ohio,  public  schools.  He  attended  a  large 
mass  meeting  of  the  Whigs  of  southeast  Ohio  and  northwest 
Virginia,  held  at  Steubenville,  in  the  summer  of  1840.  This  meet- 
ing was  addressed  by  W.  H.  Harrison,  Tom  Corwin  and  other 
eminent  speakers.  Harrison's  speech  was  a  scathing  rebuke  of 
Jackson  and  Van  Buren  reigns.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  Mr. 
Taylor  cast  his  first  vote,  in  1840,  for  Gen.  Harrison.  He  moved 
to  Illinois  in  1855,  where  he  held  various  positions  of  trust,  until 
1866,  when  he  returned  to  New  York.  He  has  resided  in  Chicago 
since  1879,  and  in  1888,  while  favoring  the  nomination  of  Blaine 
as  first  choice,  he  received  the  nomination  of  General  Benjamin 
Harrison  with  delight,  and  his  election  with  equal  pleasure. 


JOHN   B.  TAYLOR 

Was  born  in  the  county  of  Kilkenney,  Ireland,  March,  1813.  He 
moved  to  the  United  States,  and  settled  in  Kentucky  in  1831, 
and  in  1832  came  to  Illinois,  where  he  voted  for  William  Henry 
Harrison  in  1836  and  '40,  at  Springfield.  He  came  to  Chicago  in 
1858,  and  has  voted  for  every  one  of  the  "  Old  Line  "  Whigs  and 
Republicans,  save  when  he  voted  for  James  Buchanan,  for  which 
Mr.  Taylor  says — in  parenthesis — "  God  forgive  me."  His  family 
of  seven,  are  all  staunch  Republicans,  and  in  all  probability 
never  have  occasion  to  repeat  their  parental  ancestor's  prayer  of 
"  God  forgive  me." 


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E.  P.  TEALE 

Was  born  in  the  village  of  Whitehall,  State  of  New  York,  in 
1808.  His  residence  in  1832  was  in  Waterford,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
voted  for  W.  H.  Harrison  in  1836.  In  1840  he  resided  in  Ypsi- 
lanti,  Mich.,  where  he  again  voted  for  W.  H.  Harrison.  Mr.  Teale 
is  now  a  resident  of  Chicago,  and  voted  for  Gen.  Ben.  Harrison 
in  1888,  and  adds,  as  do  the  majority  of  the  Club  members,  "  I 
am  proud  of  my  political  record." 


T.  TEN   EYCK. 

Born  in  New  Jersey,  August  5,  1819;  came  west  with  his 
father,  Gen.  James  Ten  Eyck,  in  1835,  settling  in  Michigan.  In 
1840  he  became  a  voter,  and  voted  and  worked  enthusiastically 
for  the  election  of  General  Harrison.  Was  a  member  of  a  band, 
and  was  present  at  nearly  all  the  large  meetings  held  in  Michigan 
during  that  eventful  campaign;  moved  to  Wisconsin  in  1846; 
lived  at  Green  Bay,  Wis.,  when  the  Rebellion  commenced.  He 
enlisted  in  the  Twelfth  Wisconsin  Volunteers  in  August,  1861,  as 
a  private,  and  served  with  his  company  until  February,  1862, 
when  he  was  commissioned  a  captain  in  the  regular  army,  by 
President  Lincoln,  being  assigned  to  Eigthteenth  United  States 
Infantry — served  about  ten  years  in  above  mentioned  grade — 
and  was  honorably  discharged  in  January,  1871,  having  been 
brevetted  major  for  faithful  service  during  the  war. 

He  has  voted  for  every  Whig  and  Republican  presidential  can- 
didate since  1840  to,  and  including,  our  present  Harrison,  except 
Abraham  Lincoln;  could  not  vote  for  him  in  '60 — being  then  in 
Colorado  Territory — and  in  '64,  was  paying  a  compulsory  visit  to 
our  southern  brethern  in  South  Carolina. 


WILLIAM  THOMAS. 

In  1840  he  resided  in  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  although  too 
young  to  cast  his  vote  at  the  election,  worked  hard  through  the 
entire  campaign,  attending  log  cabin  meetings  in  Detroit,  Cleve- 
land, Canadaigin,  and  other  places,  taking  more  interest  actively 


JOHN  HENRY  TAYLOR. 


2IO  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

than  in  any  other  campaign  since.  In  1844  ne  voted  for  Henry 
Clay,  later  for  Martin  Van  Buren,  Fremont,  and  since  then  for  all 
the  candidates  of  the  Republican  party.  Mr.  Thomas,  in  closing 
his  biographical  sketch,  adds:  "In  looking  back  over  the  thir- 
teen presidental  elections,  I  feel  that  I  have  made  no  political 
mistake — none  that  I  would  change — and  I  only  wish  that  I  may 
have  the  opportunity  to  cast  one  more  vote  for  Benjamin  Harri- 
son, or  the  nominee  of  the  Grand  Old  Party. 


M.  M.  THOMPSON 

Was  born  on  the  —    —  day  of  -  ,  and  removed  to  the 

West  August  28th,  1834,  being  one  of  the  first  to  organize  the 
Bureau  Committee  in  this  State.  He  voted  for  Tippecanoe  in 
1836  and  in  1840,  and  cast  his  vote  for  Gen.  Benj.  Harrison  on 
Nov.  6th,  at  Wyanette,  111.,  which  he  believes  to  be  his  last  vote, 
but  let  us  hope  otherwise.  Proud  of  the  Tippecanoe  Club  badge. 


A  .  G.  THROOP 

Was  born  July  22d,  1811,  in  Deruyter,  Madison  county,  N.  Y. 
Was  in  Clyde,  St.  Clair  county,  Mich.,  in  the  year  1840,  and  cast 
his  first  vote  for  Wm.  Henry  Harrison  at  that  place.  Later  on 
Mr.  Throop  located  in  Chicago,  where  he  held  positions  of  trust 
and  political  preferments.  He  is  at  present  a  resident  of  Pasa- 
dena, Cal.,  where  he  voted  for  Gen.  Benj.  Harrison.  He  is  now 
serving  the  citizens  of  Pasadena  as  a  member  of  the  council. 


EDWARD  TIFFANY,  M.  D., 

Was  born  in  Rochester,  New  York,  May  nth,  1817.  His  early 
life  was  uneventful,  and  in  1839  he  commenced  the  study  of  med- 
icine at  Alden,  Erie  county,  N.  Y.,  afterwards  attending  Harvard 
University  and  the  lectures  in  the  Massachusetts  General  Hospi- 
tal. In  1844  he  moved  to  Meigs  county,  Ohio,  where  he  prac- 
ticed medicine  for  thirty-six  years,  with  the  exception  of  some 


EDWARD  TIFFANY. 


212  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

months  when  he  attended  lectures  on  his  chosen  vocation  at  vari- 
ous standard  colleges  Was  married  July  8,  1847,  m  Alden,  N.  Y.f 
to  Miss  Martha  A.  Kellogg.  During  the  four  years  of  the  war  he 
represented  his  county  in  the  Lower  House  of  the  Ohio  Legisla- 
ture, and  was  appointed  by  Gov.  David  Todd  a  member  of  the 
county  military  committee  for  the  same  period.  Politically,  the 
Doctor  has  always  been  a  strong  adherent  of  the  good  Republi- 
can party,  voting  for  W.  H.  Harrison  in  1840,  and  for  Gen.  Benj. 
Harrison  in  Chicago,  1888. 


CALVIN  TOWNSEND 

Was  born  in  Dixfield,  Maine,  April,  1819.  His  political  prefer- 
ences have  always  been  with  the  Whigs  and  Republicans.  His 
first  vote  was  cast  for  General  William  Henry  Harrison  in  Wei- 
ton,  Maine,  in  1840,  and  his  last  vote,  in  Chicago,  for  Harrison 
the  second. 


DANIEL  TRUE, 

Born  February  10,  1813;  in  the  town  of  Goshen,  Cheshire  county, 
New  Hampshire.  Moved  to  New  York  in  1823.  Enlisted  in  the 
army  in  1831;  served  five  years  during  the  Black  Hawk  and 
Seminoie  wars.  Voted  for  General  William  Henry  Harrison  in 
1836  and  1840  at  Albany,  New  York,  and  for  every  Whig  and 
Republican  nominated  for  the  presidency,  from  1836  to  1888  in- 
clusive. 

A.  S.  VAIL. 

My  father  and  mother  moved  from  Dawley,  Vermont,  to  a 
town  in  Canada,  by  the  name  of  Dunham  Lane;  left  there  during 
the  war  of  1812,  and  moved  to  Dawley,  Vermont,  where  I  lived 
most  of  the  time  until  I  came  to  Illinois,  where  I  have  lived 
nearly  fifty-three  years.  I  came  to  Iroquois  county  in  1836,  took 
part  in  election  of  William  Henry  Harrison  but  could  not  vote, 
as  I  had  not  been  here  as  long  as  the  law  required;  voted  for  him 


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in  1840  and  for  Benjamin  Harrison  in  1888,  and  if  his  record  is 
good  and  I  should  live,  will  vote  for  him  in  1892  if  he  is  nomi- 
nated. I  like  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago. 


C.  R.  VAN  DERCOOK, 

Son  of  Michael  S.  Van  Dercook,  was  born  in  Pittstown,  Rensalaer 
county,  New  York,  on  the  20th  day  of  May,  1819.  His  grandfather 
was  a  commissioned  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  The 
family  are  legal  heirs  of  the  famous  Anke  Jantz,  whose  estate, 
many  years  in  litigation,  embraces,  as  alleged,  the  Trinity  Church 
property  of  New  York — worth  many  millions  of  dollars.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  came  to  Chicago  in  1838;  his  occupation 
being  that  of  a  clerk.  His  first  vote  was  cast  for  William  Henry 
Harrison,  for  president,  in  1840.  Believing  the  Whig  party  to 
represent  the  best  interests  of  the  country,  especially  on  the 
tariff  question,  he  consistently  acted  with  that  party  until  it  was 
absorbed  by  the  Republican  party,  since  then  he  has  been 
actively  identified  with  the  latter — casting  his  last  presidential 
vote  for  General  Benjamin  Harrison.  In  iS4i-'42  he  was  one,  of 
nineteen,  who  organized  and  built  Trinity  Episcopal  Church. 
Sad  to  relate,  all  of  his  compeers  in  that  transaction,  excepting 
Wm.  W.  Bracket,  have  gone  to  that  bourne  from  whence  no 
traveller  returns.  Since  the  early  days  of  Chicago,  Mr.  Van 
Dercook  has  been  prominent  in  very  many  of  its  social  and 
charitable  societies.  In  1846  he  became  identified  with  the 
masonic  bodies,  and  through  his  individual  effort,  the  debts  of  the 
Apollo  Commandery  were  paid  and  its  charter  saved — this  is  said 
to  now  be  the  largest  commandery  in  the  world.  In  1843  ne  was 
elected,  and  served  as  treasurer  of  the  Young  Men's  Library  Asso- 
ciation. In  1846-7  Van  Dercook  &  Co.,  cast  and  built  the  first 
stove  manufactured  in  Chicago,  employing  about  two  hundred 
men,  and  turning  out  fifty  stoves  daily.  For  more  than  twenty 
years  Mr.  Van  Dercook  was  employed  in  the  city  water  depart- 
ment. In  i88o-'82  he  organized  the  company  which  constructed 
and  operated,  with  good  success,  a  dummy  railroad  from  Fortieth 
street,  Chicago, to  Harlem.  With  a  record  of  unremitting  business 


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activity  Mr.  Van  Dercook's  present  physical  and  mental  con- 
dition pays  eloquent  tribute  to  his  mode  of  living,  and  gives 
cheering  promise  of  many  more  years  of  usefulness  among  his 
fellow  citizens. 


B.  VAN  VELZER 

Was  born  August  12,  1818,  at  Syracuse,  New  York,  and  removed 
to  Chicago  in  1836.  Was  engaged  on  the  canal  in  Ohio  in  1840, 
and  cast  his  vote  for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison  in  a  small 
town  near  Akron.  Afterward  he  returned  to  Chicago,  engaging 
in  the  hotel  business,  and  made  his  permanent  home  here.  Has 
always  been  a  consistent  Republican,  and  took  special  pains  to 
vote  for  Benjamin  Harrison. 


ARCHER    R.  VANHOUTTEN 

Was  born  on  the  5th  of  October,  1812,  in  Tarrytown,  New  York, 
and  when  fifteen  years  of  age  was  bound  out- -as  was  the  custom 
in  those  days — to  a  cabinet  maker,  and  has  followed  that  trade 
and  other  branches  thereof,  during  the  greater  portion  of  his  life. 
He  voted  for  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison  in  1836  and  1840,  and 
Benjamin  Harrison  in  1888. 

As  a  carpenter  he  was  called  upon  to  build  the  arches  on 
Broadway,  Pearl  and  other  New  York  streets  for  the  Whig  pro- 
cessions of  1836  and  1840,  and  also  a  large  log  cabin  exhibited  at 
the  same  time. 


JAMES   A.  WAKEFIELD 

Was  born  in  Cherryfield,  Maine,  April  30th,  1819.  Received  his 
education  in  common  schools  and  the  Academy  of  Cherryfield. 
His  business  in  Maine  prior  to  leaving  for  the  Western  States, 
was  chiefly  lumber  and  mercantile  business,  often  superintending 
lumber  operations  and  the  erection  of  mills.  In  1861  and  1862 
was  one  of  the  "select  men"  of  Cherryfield,  and  in  1861  was  or- 
dered by  Adjt -General  ot  Maine  to  enroll  the  "militia,"  and 
during  the  war  recruited  many  men  for  the  service.  In  1866  left 


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Maine  for  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  he  resided  eight  years.  In 
1874  came  to  Chicago,  111.,  where  he  has  since  resided.  In  1884 
he  cast  his  vote  for  James  G.  Elaine  for  president — his  decided 
preference.  The  first  vote  he  ever  cast  was  for  William  Henry 
Harrison  in  1840  for  president,  and  in  1888  he  voted  for  the 
"  grandson." 


A.  G.  WARNER 

Was  born  in  Le  Roy,  Genesee  county,  N.  Y.,  February  22d,  1817. 
His  father,  Thomas  Warner,  died  at  Ypsilanti,  Mich.,  in  1828, 
where  he  had  gone  to  prepare  a  home  for  his  family,  consisting 
of  his  wife  and  seven  children,  whom  he  left  in  Le  Roy  awaiting 
his  return,  when  the  news  of  his  death,  instead  of  his  presence, 
was  received.  The  bereaved,  but  courageous  mother,  was  left  in 
poverty  to  rear  and  care  for  the  seven  children,  of  whom  A.  G. 
was  the  third  in  age.  • 

In  1835  ne  left  tne  widowed  mother's  home  in  Le  Roy  to 
enter  a  business  life  at  Rush,  Monroe  county,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
cast  his  first  presidential  vote  for  William  Henry  Harrison  in 
1840.  He  was  a  staunch  Henry  Clay  Whig — was  one  of  one  hun- 
dred selected  by  the  Whigs  of  Monroe  county  to  attend  the  con- 
vention at  Baltimore  in  1844  to  influence  the  nomination  of  their 
party  idol — Henry  Clay — and  was  one  of  twenty-five  selected 
from  the  hundred  to  proceed  to  Washington  the  next  day  to 
greet  the  illustrious  nominee  and  ratify  his  nomination.  In  1853 
he  came  to  Chicago  to  reside,  and  entered  the  "  Eagle  Works  " 
manufacturing  establishment  of  P.  W.  Gates  &  Co.,  as  book-keeper, 
his  older  brother,  E.  S.  Warner,  being  a  member  of  the  firm.  In 
1856  he  was  admitted  a  member  of  the  firm,  under  the  name  of 
Gates,  Warner,  Chalmers  &  Eraser,  taking  charge  of  the  office 
work  during  the  existence  of  the  co-partnership. 

In  1867  he  removed  to  Englewood,  Cook  county,  111.,  where 
he  now  resides,  and  cast  his  last  presidential  vote  for  Benjamin 
Harrison.  Although  a  pronounced  anti-slavery  and  temperance 
man  and  worker,  he  has  always  voted  with  the  Whig  and  Repub- 
lican parties  from  1838  to  1888  inclusive,  always  deprecating 


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national  third  party  movements,  fully  believing  that  slavery  could 
never  be  abolished  until  the  true  party  of  reform,  the  grand  old 
Whig  party,  should  identify  its  power  in  the  movement,  which  it 
did  do  in  adopting  a  new  name — the  Republican  party;  and  as 
with  slavery,  so  it  will  be,  in  his  estimation,  with  the  liquor 
traffic.  Prohibition,  he  thinks,  cannot  be  accomplished  by  the 
third  party  movement.  Political  Prohibitionists  must  return  to 
the  real  party  of  reform  and  progress — the  glorious  and  reliable 
Republican  party — and  whether  under  that  name,  or  a  new  name 
that  may  be  chosen  hereafter,  prohibition,  he  thinks,  will,  in  the 
near  future,  be  the  watchword  of  the  party  of  reform,  and  in  the 
natural  course  of  events  be  victorious. 


ABIAL  H.  WILLIAMS 

Was  born  in  the  town  of  Lyman,  State  of  Maine,  October  13, 
1818.  Cast  his  first  presidential  vote  for  Gen.  Wm.  Henry  Har- 
rison, at  Atkinson,  in  said  State,  in  1840,  and  voted  the  Whig  and 
Republican  tickets  down  to  and  including  the  election  of  Benja- 
min Harrison  to  the  presidency  of  the  United  States.  Mr.  Wil- 
liams is  yet  quite  vigorous,  and  has  enlivened  the  meetings  of  the 
Club  by  singing  with  great  effect  some  of  the  old-time  campaign 
songs,  notably  the  one  entitled  "  The  Sword  of  Bunker  Hill." 


M.    D.  WILLIAMS 

Was  born  in  Saratoga,  New  York,  July  15.  1816.  His  political 
career  has  been  that  of  a  private  citizen,  consecutively  and  per- 
sistently for  the  success  of  the  Whig  and  Republican  parties. 
Voted  for  General  William  Henry  Harrison  in  Fulton  county, 
New  York,  in  1840,  and  for  the  younger  Harrison  in 


WILLIAM   R.  WILSON 

Was  born  at  Ashland,  Ky.,  August  9, 1817.    His  father  was  a  Whig, 
living  in  the  same  town   with   Henry  Clay,   for  whose  political 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  2 1/ 

opinions  he  had  the  highest  regard,  and  was  a  warm,  personal 
and  political  friend  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1837. 

Mr.  Wilson  followed  in  the  political  footsteps  of  his  father, 
and  lays  claim  to  being  a  Whig  from  'way  back.  In  1836,  lacking 
just  two  years  a  legal  voter,  he  was  unable  to  vote,  but  in  1840 
cast  his  first  vote  for  "  Tip  and  Ti,"  at  Greensborough,  Ind.,  and 
from  that  time  to  1852  he  voted  for  the  Whig  nominees.  In  1864 
he  voted  for  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  ever  after  he  gave  his  sup- 
port to  the  Republican  party.  Mr.  Wilson  closes  his  short  bio- 
graphical sketch  of  himself  by  saying  "  My  only  political  regret 
is,  that  I  did  not  have  the  courage  of  my  convictions  to  vote  for 
Abraham  Lincoln  in  1860." 


ALBERT  WINGATE 

Was  born  at  Hallowell,  Kennebec  county,  Maine,  June  15,  1817; 
removed  to  Penobscot  county  in  1839.  September  6,  1842 
started  by  team  for  the  far  West — as  Illinois  was  then  called— 
reaching  the  Ten  Mile  House,  now  Auburn,  kept  by  John  Smith 
and  Merrill  Kile,  October  17,  and  on  October  26  commenced 
housekeeping  in  a  log  cabin  in  the  present  town  of  Worth,  Cook 
county,  Illinois,  and  has  lived  in  the  same  school  district  ever 
since.  Mr.  Wingate  has  always  been  a  farmer,  and  comes  of  a 
long  line  of  distinguished  ancestors.  John  Wingate  was  a 
planter  at  Hilton's  Head,  now  Dover,  New  Hampshire;  served  in 
King  Phillip's  War  in  1658,  and  died  Dec.  Qth,  1687.  Joshua 
Wingate  held  the  rank  of  Colonel  in  the  army  that  captured 
Louisburg,  in  1745,  and  died  February  9th,  1769,  aged  ninety 
years.  Rev.  Paine  Wingate  was  pastor  of  the  Second  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  Amesbury,  Mass.,  for  sixty  years,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary i  gth,  1786,  aged  eighty-three  years.  Joseph  Wingate, 
popularly  known  as  "  Farmer  Wingate,"  died  in  Hallowell,  Maine, 
September  i8th,  1826,  aged  seventy-five.  Paine  Wingate,  Albert's 
father,  died  at  Hallowell,  Maine.,  January  I2th,  1849,  on  a  farm 
which  he  had  cleared  of  the  dense  forest  that  covered  it  in  1806, 
when  he  first  got  it.  All  of  his  ancestors  owned  and  lived  during 
a  portion  of  their  lives  on  a  farm. 


2l8  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

Joseph  Wingate  was  a  Federalist,  Paine  Wingate  a  Federalist 
and  Whig,  and  Albert  Wingate  cast  his  first  vote  for  president 
for  Wm.  Henry  Harrison,  at  Orono,  Penobscot  county,  Me.;  voted 
for  Clay  in  '44;  missed  '48;  voted  for  Scott  in  '52,  Fremont  in  '56, 
and  all  the  Republican  candidates  since  that  date,  including  Ben- 
jamin Harrison  in  1888.  Mr.  Wingate  has  never  used  glasses,  and 
his  sight  is  good  today. 


EMORY  B.  WOLCOTT 

Was  born  on  the  igth  of  September,  1806,  at  Trenton,  Oneida 
county,  New  York.  In  politics,  Mr.  Wolcott  has  never  been 
other  than  Whig  and  Republican.  He  voted  for  Gen.  William 
Henry  Harrison  in  1836  and  1840  at  Rome,  New  York,  and  was 
one  of  a  large  party  who,  in  1840,  went  from  Rome  to  Utica  in 
wagons,  making  a  portion  of  a  three-mile  procession  in  celebra- 
tion of  Gen.  Harrison's  election,  which  was  followed  by  a  ball  in 
the  evening.  Mr.  W'olcott  voted  in  1888  at  Fern-wood,  111.  It  is 
entirely  unnecessary  to  say  for  whom  that  vote  was  cast. 


A.  J.  WRIGHT. 

Born  August  6th,  1817,  at  Dunstable,  county  of  Middlesex, 
Massachusetts.  His  father  was  a  Clay  Whig,  and  voted  for  Wm. 
Henry  Harrison  in  1836  and  '40.  His  grandfather  served  in  the 
Revolutionery  War.  Mr.  Wright  took  an  active  part  in  the 
campaign  of  1836,  but  by  reason  of  his  age  did  not  vote;  but  did 
vote  for  William  Henry  Harrison,  in  Nashua,  New  Hampshire,  in 
1840,  and  has  voted  the  straight  Republican  ticket  ever  since. 
Mr.  Wright  has  been  in  business  in  Chicago  since  the  year  1854, 
being  quite  well  known  to  our  citizens  in  general. 


JOSHUA  PALMER  YOUNG, 

Dealer  in  real  estate,  was  born   at   Brockport,  N.  Y.,  Marcl;  18, 
1818.     He  voted  for  Gen.  W.  H.  Harrison,  at  Brockport,  in  1840. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  2IQ 

He  came  to  Chicago  in  1848,  and  built  the  first  house  on  the 
West  Side  south  of  Polk  street.  He  early  became  interested  in 
city  and  suburban  property,  managing  many  important  trans- 
actions. In  1856  he  purchased  and  platted  eighty  acres  of  land 
on  which  most  of  the  village  of  Blue  Island  is  located,  where  he 
has  since  resided,  and  where  he  voted  for  Benjamin  Harrison  in 
1888.  Mr.  Young  was  a  man  of  great  business  sagacity,  and  all 
his  dealings  were  characterized  by  uniform  integrity.  His  busi- 
ness life  was  paralleled  by  his  devout  Christian  character  and  his 
sincere  religious  life.  He  founded  the  Congregational  Church 
at  Blue  Island,  and  was  its  main  pillar  till  his  death,  May  26th, 
1889. 

N.  STARR  CARRINGTON 

Was  born  at  Middleton,  Conn.,  Dec.  12,  1816;  came  to  Chicago 
October  I,  1836;  settled  on  a  farm  in  Lyons,  Cook  county,  111.; 
the  same  year;  married  Miss  Flora  Butler,  of  Norfolk,  Conn., 
Aug.  16,  1841;  voted  for  Wm.  Henry  Harrison  in  1840 — always 
Whig  and  Republican. 


22O  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

Letter   of  Ber\jamir\    Harrisorv,   the   Signer. 


Benjamin  Harrison,  the  signer  of  the  Declaration  ot  inde- 
pendence, received  an  appointment  under  General  Wayne,  and 
intended  accompanying  him  on  the  expedition  against  the  north- 
western Indians,  but  was  unable  to  do  so  in  consequence  "  of 
having  three  of  his  ribs  broken  near  the  backbone,  also  loosened 
from  his  breast,  and  one  broke  near  the  middle."  Under  these 
circumstances  he  determined  to  send  his  son,  Wm.  Henry,  even 
in  the  humble  capacity  of  private  soldier,  as  will  be  seen  by  the 
following  extract  of  a  letter  written  to  Maj.-Gen.  Charles  Scott, 
afterward  Governor  of  Kentucky: 

OCTOBER  10,  1792. 

And  now,  before  I  take  my  leave,  permit  me  to  tell  you,  my  son,  a  youth 
of  nineteen  years  of  age,  I  have  sent  forward  in  the  character  of  a  private  sol- 
dier, under  Captain  Rollins.  His  youth  and  inexperience,  I  make  no  doubt, 
will  stand  in  need  of  your  friendship;  therefore,  I  pray  you,  teach  him  the 
duties  of  his  station,  and  if  any  accident  should  happen  him,  pay  some  atten- 
tion to  him.  Your  obedient  and  humble  servant.  BENJAMIN  HARRISON. 


BIRTHPLACE   OF   TIPPECANOE. 


222  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

From  a  Popular  Campaign  Song  of  1840. 


Oh,  what  has  caused  the  great  commotion,  motion,  motion? 

Our  country  through? 
It  is  the  ball  that's  rolling  on 
For  Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too! 


Jippecanoe  s  JriumpKal  March  to  Washington. 


Tuesday,  January  26,  1841,  crowds  of  the  citizens  of  Cincin- 
nati congregated  in  front  of  the  Henrie  House,  to  see  for  the  last 
time  previous  to  his  entering  upon  the  important  duties  of  office 
of  President-elect,  Gen.  Wm.  Henry  Harrison. 

The  day  was  cloudy  and  the  streets  were  muddy.  A  carriage 
had  been  provided,  but  the  General  preferred  walking,  and  was 
escorted  by  several  military  companies,  and  a  large  number  of 
citizens,  to  the  river,  where  lay  the  steamboat  "  Ben  Franklin," 
waiting  for  the  distinguished  passenger.  The  crowd  upon  the 
wharf  was  immense  for  those  days,  and  was  estimated  at  twelve 
thousand.  Gen.  Harrison  was  most  deeply  affected  when,  from 
the  deck  of  his  little  steamboat,  he  briefly  addressed  his  friends 
and  neighbors.  He  spoke  of  the  difference  in  his  feelings  at  that 
time  from  those  experienced  when  he  first  landed  at  the  spot  an 
humble  ensign  in  the  army  of  his  country;  and  contrasted  the 
present  scene  with  that  of  his  arrival,  when  only  an  occasional 
log  cabin  could  be  discovered,  and  all  around  was  a  dense,  dark 
wood,  the  silence  of  which  was  unbroken,  save  by  the  scream  of 
the  panther  and  fierce  yell  of  the  savage.  He  spoke  of  the  part 
he  had  borne  in  all  these  changing  years,  and  of  his  love  for  the 
great  West.  He  said  he  fully  realized  the  vast  responsibilities  of 
the  duties  he  was  about  to  enter  upon,  and  that  the  nation's  weal 
would  be  his  compass  and  polar  star.  When  he  was  found  devi- 
ating from  the  high  road  of  genuine  Democracy  he  felt  that  he 
would  merit  their  condemnation  and  rebuke.  He  closed  his  re- 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  22j 

marks  with  words  of  farewell,  and  amid  the  cheers  of  the  multi- 
tude, the  martial  music,  and  the  cannon's  boom  from  either  shore, 
the  little  boat  steamed  away  upon  its  journey,  and,  as  it  sadly 
proved,  General  Harrison  left  his  beloved  West  forever. 

THE    JOURNEY. 

He  was  accompanied  by  half  a  dozen  intimate  friends,  and 
several  grandsons,  whom  he  was  taking  East  to  college.  The 
boat  was  crowded  with  eminent  citizens  of  Indiana,  Kentucky 
and  Ohio,  and  a  Company  of  Military,  who  escorted  him  as  far 
as  Pittsburg.  Thursday,  at  one  o'clock,  a  signal  gun,  to  which  the 
cannons  in  the  city  of  Wheeling  responded,  announced  the  ex- 
pected arrival  of  "  Ben  Franklin,"  with  the  President-elect  on 
board.  Flags  were  unfurled,  bells  rung,  and  shouts  and  cheers 
from  the  thousands  gathered  at  the  wharf  welcomed  his  coming. 
He  was  escorted  from  the  boat  to  the  hotel  by  the  reception 
committee  in  an  open  carriage,  followed  by  bands,  military  and 
citizens,  and  also  a  reception  committee  and  military  company 
from  Pittsburg.  On  his  arrival  at  the  hotel  he  was  formally  re- 
ceived by  a  prominent  citizen,  and  made  a  short  and  happy 
speech  in  reply,  after  which  he  was  taken  by  the  hand  by  thous- 
ands of  the  citizens  of  Wheeling  and  the  surrounding  country. 
From  the  hotel  he  was  escorted  to  the  house  of  an  old  friend, 
where  great  preparations  had  been  made  for  his  reception,  and 
during  the  evening  many  of  Virginia's  fair  daughters  called  and 
paid  their  respects.  At  ten  o'clock  the  party  resumed  their 
journey.  About  three  o'clock  Friday  afternoon  the  boat  reached 
Pittsburg,  where  another  gratifying  reception  was  accorded  the 
General.  From  a  member  of  the  company  on  board  it  was  ascer- 
'tained  that  there  were  at  least  twenty-five  thousand  people  on 
the  shore  when  the  "  Ben  Franklin  "  approached. 

On  the  edge  of  the  bank  several  military  companies  were  sta- 
tioned to  keep  back  the  crowd  and  open  a  passage  way  for  the 
carriages  sent  down  for  the  presidential  party.  The  "  Ben 
Franklin  "  landed  at  the  foot  of  Wood  Street,  and  when  General 
Harrison  mounted  the  hurricane  deck  a  deafening  shout  arose. 
He  soon  went  on  shore,  and  escorted  by  the  committee  and  mil- 


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itary  that  met  him  at  Wheeling,  made  the  circuit  of  the  city  in 
an  open  barouche.  He  siopped  at  the  Pittsburg  Hotel,  and 
through  that  evening  and  the  following  morning  he  received  the 
congratulations  of  the  citizens.  At  eleven  o'clock  Saturday  he 
addressed  an  immense  audience  in  front  of  the  hotel,  and  it  is 
said  that  for  squares  in  all  directions  there  was  a  dense  mass  of 
human  beings  eager  to  get  a  glimpse  of  the  coming  chief  magis- 
trate. 

An  escort  of  Pennsylvanians  then  took  charge  of  Gen.  Har- 
rison, and  in  a  vehicle  provided  for  the  occasion,  the  presidential 
party  proceeded  to  Brownsville,  where  they  took  passage  in  a 
stage-coach  for  Baltimore.  At  every  point  at  which  he  stopped, 
if  only  for  an  hour,  he  met  with  demonstrations  of  the  most  flat- 
tering kind,  and  finally  arrived  in  Washington  on  his  sixty-eighth 
birthday — the  Qth  day  of  February — and  fourteen  days  after  he 
had  embarked  at  Cincinnati. 

AT    THE    CAPITOL. 

He  was  warmly  greeted  upon  his  arrival  at  the  depot  by  a 
large  concourse  of  people,  and  was  briefly  welcomed  by  the 
Mayor.  The  reception  committee  and  Tippecanoe  Clubs  es- 
corted him  to  the  City  Hall,  where  the  Mayor  made  an  address 
of  welcome,  and  Gen.  Harrison  responded  in  a  short  speech. 
He  left  Washington  February  11,  for  Richmond,  Va.,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  placing  in  school  the  grandsons  who  accompanied  him. 

The  celebration  of  Washington's  birthday  was  observed  with 
great  eclat  in  Richmond,  and  on  that  occasion  Gen.  Harrison  and 
Gov.  Tyler  met  for  the  first  time  in  public  life.  In  the  morning 
the  Governor  of  Virginia,  in  behalf  of  the  State,  presented  ele-. 
gant  swords  to  nine  officers  of  the  army  and  navy — who  were 
natives  of  Virginia,  and  distinguished  themselves  in  the  then  late 
war — in  the  presence  of  the  distinguished  guests,  and  the  mem- 
bers of  the  legislature,  and  others.  After  the  ceremonies  of  the 
presentation  were  over,  the  whole  body  were  escorted  to  a  large 
hall  over  the  market-place,  where  they  were  tendered  a  banquet, 
and  where  Gen.  Harrison  entertained  them  with  a  speech,  fol- 
lowed by  Tyler,  and  other  persons  of  prominence. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  225 

During  the  visit  of  the  General  to  Richmond,  he  amused 
himself  by  visiting  the  scenes  of  his  boyhood,  and,  notwithstand- 
ing the  fatigue  of  entertaining,  which  he  continually  underwent, 
he  was  up  by  day-break,  walking  about  the  city,  looking  in  at 
the  markets,  pricing  grain  and  other  products,  asking  questions, 
and  hunting  up  the  old  places  he  knew  so  well.  He  searched  out 
the  building  where  he  was  a  student  of  medicine,  and,  although 
he  found  in  the  old,  tumble-down  house  a  grog-shop,  he  en- 
tered it  and  explained  to  his  companions,  much  to  the  surprise 
of  the  keeper:  "  Here,  fifty  years  ago,  I  worked  the  pestle  and 
mortar  in  compounding  medicines." 

Gen.  Harrison  went  from  Richmond  to  Petersburg,  by  invita- 
tion, and  thence  to  Berkley,  on  the  James  River,  and  by  way  of 
Annapolis  he  reached  Washington  Monday,  March  I.  For  the 
three  days  previous  to  his  inauguration  he  was  the  guest  of  the 
Mayor  of  the  city,  where  he  received,  at  all  hours  of  the  day,  the 
visits  of  his  many  friends  and  admirers.  For  days  and  weeks 
the  city  had  been  gradually  filling  with  strangers,  who  traveled 
in  various  ways.  They  came  by  land  and  water,  in  wagons,  car- 
riages, and  on  foot. 

At  eight  o'clock  the  morning  of  March  4,  the  military  com- 
panies, Tippecanoe  Clubs,  and  delegations  began  to  form,  and  at 
ten  o'clock  the  procession  moved  from  the  head  of  Four-and-a- 
half  Street,  when  a  salute  of  three  guns  announced  their  march 
toward  the  quarters  of  the  president-elect, 

THE    CEREMONIES. 

At  this  point  Gen.  Harrison,  who,  it  is  said,  was  mounted  on 
a  magnificent  white  charger,  and  accompanied  by  his  suite  of 
personal  friends,  took  his  place  in  the  procession  immediately 
after  the  officers  and  soldiers  who  fought  under  him.  On  his 
right  were  seven  citizen  Marshals,  and  on  his  left  the  Marshals 
of  the  District  of  Columbia  and  four  aids. 

The  enthusiasm  was  intense  along  the  line  of  march  among 
both  participants  and  lookers-on,  and  when  at  the  last  the  Presi- 
dent-elect stepped  forth  upon  the  platform,  prepared  over  the 
portico  of  the  east  front  of  the  Capitol,  he  was  received  with  tu- 


226  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF   THE 

multuous  and  long  applause.  When  the  uproar  had  subsided  he 
proceeded  to  read  his  address  in  a  clear  and  distinct  tone,  the 
commanding  voice  never  flagging  until  he  had  finished.  After 
the  oath  of  office  had  been  administered,  the  deafening  shouts 
were  renewed  and  prolonged,  and  a  pealing  cannon  announced 
that  the  country  had  a  new  chief  magistrate.  The  procession 
again  formed  and  proceeded  along  Pennsylvania  Avenue  to  the 
presidential  mansion,  cheered  by  the  crowds  that  lined  the 
Avenue  and  filled  the  doors  and  windows  along  the  route. 


Extract  From  president  Wm.  Jlenrvj  Harrison's  Inaugural  Address, 

J^larcK  4tK,  1841. 


I  deem  the  present  occasion  sufficiently  important  and  sol- 
emn to  justify  me  in  expressing  to  my  fellow  citizens  a  profound 
reverence  for  the  Christian  religion,  and  a  thorough  conviction 
that  sound  morals,  religious  liberty,  and  a  just  sense  of  religious 
responsibility,  are  essentially  connected  with  all  true  and  lasting 
happiness;  and  to  that  good  Being  who  has  blessed  us  by  the 
gifts  of  civil  and  religious  freedom,  who  watched  over  and  pros- 
pered the  labors  of  our  fathers,  and  has  hitherto  preserved  to  us 
institutions  far  exceeding  in  excellence  those  of  any  other  people, 
let  us  unite  in  fervently  commending  every  interest  of  our  be- 
loved country  in  all  future  time. 


Harrison's  Family  Tree. 


BY    MR.  BLACKFORD. 

Master  John  Harrison — first  Governor  of  Virginia — 1623. 

Benjamin  Harrison,  of  Surrey — born  1645. 

His  son,  Benjamin  Harrison,  of  Berkley — died  April,  1710. 

His  son,  Benjamin  Harrison — killed  by  lightning. 

His  son,  Benjamin  Harrison,  great-grandfather  of  the  President. 

His  son,  Wm.  Henry  Harrison.  President  of  the  United  States. 

His  son,  John  Scott  Harrison,  father  of  the  President. 


W.    DEWEY 


ICHABOD   STODDARD. 


I..   \V.    1'ARK.K 


A.   H.    MORRISON 


230  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

'Report  of  Qeorge  S.  Knapp. 


Having  represented  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  of  Chicago,  in 
Washington,  at  the  inauguration  of  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison  as 
President  of  the  United  States,  on  the  4th  of  March,  1889,  I  beg 
leave  to  report  that  as  such  representative  I  was  everywhere  re- 
ceived with  demonstrations  of  respect,  and  treated  with  the 
highest  consideration.  Dressed  in  plain  black,  wearing  the  badge 
of  the  Club  upon  my  breast,  and  bearing  aloft  the  time-honored 
flag  which  floated  in  the  breeze  in  the  presidential  campaigns  of 
Grant,  Garfield,  Elaine  and  Harrison,  and  which  saluted  General 
Grant  on  his  return  from  his  trip  around  the  world — myself  al- 
ways the  ensign — that  flag  which  represents  the  principles  of 
civil  and  religious  liberty,  for  which  my  grandfather,  Captain 
Simeon  Crandall,  struggled  on  Bunker  Hill,  and  throughout  the 
war  of  the  Revolntion.  I  was  assigned  a  place  in  the  line  of 
march  directly  in  rear  of  the  regiment  of  veterans  who  served 
under  General  Harrison  in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion.  Arriving  at 
the  capitol,  I  had  an  excellent  opportunity  to  hear  the  President 
deliver  his  able  and  patriotic  address  to  the  people  of  the  United 
States.  I  was  then  an  invited  guest  to  the  reviewing  stand  of 
the  President.  The  sight  from  this  position  is  never  to  be  for- 
gotten by  those  who  were  so  fortunate  as  to  witness  it — was  so 
sublime  as  to  baffle  description. 

At  the  inaugural  ball — a  dense  forest  of  people,  all  nations 
represented,  moved,  unostentatiously  and  serene  the  cynosure  of 
all  eyes,  the  chosen  ruler  of  sixty  millions  of  freemen. 
"  On  with  the  dance,  let  joy  be  unconfined!  " 

Tis  morning!  Now,  as  the  king  of  day  salutes  the  summit  of 
Washington's  Monument  with  a  kiss,  a  welcome  summons  greets 
the  ear:  "The  President  will,  this  A.  M.,  receive  all  Clubs  from 
outside  the  city."  Thereupon,  your  obedient  servant,  accoutered 
as  on  the  previous  day,  passed  through  the  door  of  the  White 
House,  and  halting  in  the  presence  of  the  chief  magistrate,  said: 

Mr.  President: — Representing  on  this  occasion  the  Old  Tippe- 
canoe Club,  of  Chicago,  comprising  some  five  hundred  veterans, 


G.  S.  KXAPP. 


232  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

I  congratulate  you,  and  I  am  authorized  to  pledge  the  Club  to 
the  support  of  your  administration  with  the  same  zeal  and  devo- 
tion that  it  manifested  in  your  election.  In  accordance  with  my 
promise,  I  now  and  here,  in  the  White  House,  in  the  name  and  in 
the  honor  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago,  take  pleasure 
in  waving  this  flag  of  our  Union  before  you. 

Whereupon  the  President  replied  substantially  as  follows: 
Mr.  Knapp: — I  thank  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  of  Chicago  for 
its  active  and  efficient  service  in  the  recent  campaign,  especially 
for  the  uniform  kindness  shown  me.  My  home  is  open  to  all 
the  Old  Tippecanoes,  and  I  should  be  pleased  to  have  them  call 
on  me  when  here. 

Lev"!  y.  Morton,  Vice-pYesident  of  the  United  States, 


Was  born  at  Shoreham,  Vermont,  May  16,  1824.  His  father  was 
the  Rev.  Daniel  P.  Morton,  a  Congregational  minister  of  small 
means,  and  a  lineal  descendant  of  George  Morton,  who  came  to 
this  country  from  England  in  1623.  Levi  received  a  common 
school  education,  was  a  clerk  in  Concord,  N.  H.  In  1850  he  be- 
came one  of  the  firm  of  Beebee,  Morgan  &  Co.,  merchants  in 
Boston;  in  1863  he  founded  the  banking  house  of  Morton,  Bliss 
&  Co.,  in  New  York,  and  Morton,  Rose  &  Co.,  in  London,  Eng- 
land. The  two  companies  assisted  largely  in  funding  the  debt  of 
the  United  States,  enabling  the  government  to  save  several  mil- 
lions of  dollars.  The  Wall  Street  firm  has  since  that  time  been 
one  of  the  most  conspicuous  in  America.  Mr.  Morton  entered 
political  life  in  1876.  In  1878  he  was  elected  to  Congress  from 
New  York  by  a  majority  exceeding  the  entire  vote  of  his  oppo- 
nent, and  at  once  took  a  commanding  position  on  finance.  As 
Minister  to  France  he  was  extremely  agreeable  and  prominent  at 
the  French  capitol,  and  his  house  became  singularly  popular. 
With  the  coming  into  power  of  the  Cleveland  administration, 
Mr.  Morton,  of  course,  returned  home.  In  January,  1885,  his 
name  was  before  the  Republican  caucus  in  Albany  for  nomination 
for  United  States  Senator,  when  Mr.  Evarts  was  chosen  and 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO. 


233 


elected.  Mr.  Morton  uses  his  vast  wealth  so  that  his  name  has 
become  synonymous  with  benevolence.  A  notable  instance  was 
his  fitting  out,  in  1880,  the  ship  "  Constitution  "  with  provisions 
for  the  starving  people  in  Ireland.  His  contribution  to  this 
worthy  object  amounted  to  a  small  fortune.  He  enjoys  the  full 
confidence  of  the  party  which  elected  him  to  his  high  office,  and 
the  whole  people  feel  assured  that  in  any  emergency  the  country 
could  safely  be  entrusted  to  his  care. 

Facts  About  Presidents. 

The  table  below  gives  at  a  glance  the  political  history  of  the 
Presidents.  The  letter  "  o  "  signifies  that  the  President  whose 
name  is  opposite  filled  the  specified  offices  before  he  was  called 
to  guide  the  ship  of  State: 


y3 

O 

Names. 

I 

§ 
?i° 
•<:" 

90 
P 

pr 

1  Legislature. 

n 

o 

^ 

ft 
•J. 
u> 

Governor. 

c 

C/: 

•j~. 

r. 

P 

fT 

Cabinet. 

Minister. 

< 

r.' 

n 

fr 
n 

at 

Minor  Offices. 

Washington  •  1  732 

Com. 

0 
0 
0 

o 

0 

o 

0 
0 
0 

o 

0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

0 
0 

o 

0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

0 
0 

• 

o 

0 

o 

o 
o 

0 

0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

o 

0 
0 

0 

Adams  1735 
Jefferson                   1743 

State. 
State. 
State. 
State. 

0 

0 
0 

o 

0 
0 

J 
o 

Madison                     1  75  1 

Monroe                     1758 

Capt. 
Mj.'G. 

J.  Q.  Adams  1767 
Jackson   1  767 

Judge. 

Van  Buren                    .            ....  1782 

State. 

H  arrison       1  773 

ivij.  G. 

Tr.  Sec. 

Tyler               1  790 

Polk                     !795 

Taylor                      1784 

Gen. 

Fillmore                     1  800 

o 

O 

0 

Com. 
D.  Atty. 

Pierce                             1  804 

Bg.G. 
Capt. 

Buchanan  1  791 
Lincoln  1809 

State. 

Post  M. 
Aid. 

Johnson          1  808 

Grant  1822  Com. 

War. 

Hayes     .         1822 

Bg.G. 
Mj.  G. 
Gen. 

0 

0 

0 

0 

o 

0 

City  Sol. 

Garfield                1831 

Arthur                        1830 

0 

Col.  Pt. 
Mayor. 
Ct.  Rep. 

^Cleveland      ^837 

Harrison  1833 

Bg.G. 

.     0 

*  Cleveland  was  Sheriff  and  Assistant  District  Attorney. 


234  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

History  does  not  bear  out  the  general  belief  that  a  seat  in  the 
Cabinet  or  a  position  at  a  foreign  court  ends  a  man's  Presidential 
ambition,  for  Jefferson,  Madison,  Monroe,  Quincy  Adams,  Van 
Buren  and  Buchanan  each  served  as  Secretary  of  State.  All  of 
them  except  Madison  and  Van  Buren  represented  the  nation 
abroad  as  Ministers.  Gen.  Grant  was  Secretary  of  War.  Seven 
Vice-Presidents  reached  the  higher  office.  They  were  John 
Adams,  Jefferson  and  Van  Buren,  who  were  elected  to  it;  and 
Tyler,  Fillmore  Johnson  and  Arthur,  who  succeeded  the  four 
Presidents  who  died  in  office,  viz:  Gen.  Harrison,  Gen.  Taylor, 
Lincoln  and  Gen.  Garfield. 

Only  three  Presidents  occupied  office  after  vacating  the  Pres- 
idential chair — Quincy  Adams,  who  afterwards  spent  seventeen 
years  in  Congress;  Monroe,  who  became  a  Justice  of  the  Peace; 
and  Johnson,  who  was  elected  United  States  Senator  in  1875. 

The  Speakership  of  Congress  has  not  proved  conducive  to 
the  Presidency.  Only  one  man  who  presided  over  the  House  has 
reached  the  Chief  Magistracy,  and  that  was  James  K.  Polk.  Two 
of  America's  most  brilliant  sons — Henry  Clay  and  James  G. 
Blaine — are  cases  in  point.  Both  were  sent  to  the  Legislature 
when  young,  and  they  became  the  Speakers  of  their  respective 
Houses.  They  were  elevated  to  Congress  and  each  became 
Speaker  of  the  House.  Both  served  in  the  Senate  and  in  the 
Cabinet  as  Secretary  of  State.  They  were  also  unsuccessful  can- 
didates for  President.  Each  was  defeated  by  a  comparatively 
unknown  man — Clay  by  Polk,  and  Blaine  by  Cleveland. 

Virginia  has  furnished  no  less  than  seven  Presidents — Wash- 
ington, Jefferson,  Madison,  Monroe,  "Old  Tippecanoe '.'  Harrison, 
Zachary  Taylor  and  John  Tyler.  Harrison  was  a  resident  of 
Ohio  and  Taylor  of  Louisiana  when  elected. 

The  two  Adamses,  John  Adams  and  John  Quincy  Adams, 
were  both  natives  of  Massachusetts.  Franklin  Pierce  was  born 
in  New  Hampshire,  and  Gen.  Arthur  was  a  native  of  Vermont. 
Thus  New  England  has  had  four  representatives  in  the  White 
House. 

Five  of  the  men  elevated  to  the  office  were  either  natives  or 
residents  of  Ohio,  and  soldiers — viz:  "Old  Tippecanoe  "  Harrison, 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  23$ 

Gens.  Grant,  Hayes  and  Garfield,  and  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison. 
All  but  Gen.  W.  H.  Harrison  (a  Virginian  by  birth)  were  born  in 
Ohio.  Grant  became  a  resident  of  Illinois  and  Benjamin  Harri- 
son is  an  adopted  son  of  Indiana.  Hayes  had  a  singular  experi- 
ence in  his  political  career.  He  was  elected  Governor  of  Ohio 
three  times,  defeating  each  time  a  Democrat  of  national  reputa- 
tion— Allen  G.  Thurman,  George  H.  Pendleton,  and  "  Old  Bill  " 
Allen.  The  first  two  named  were  unsuccessful  candidates  for 
Vice-President.  It  was  Thurman  who  admitted  Hayes  to  the  bar. 

New  York  has  furnished  four  Presidents — -Van  Buren,  Fill- 
more,  Arthur  and  Cleveland.  The  first  two  were  natives  of  the 
State,  Arthur  was  a  Vermonter,  and  Cleveland  a  native  of  New 
Jersey.  It  is  an  odd  coincidence  that  Fillmore  and  Cleveland 
were  residents  of  Buffalo. 

Illinois  never  sent  a  native  of  the  State  to  the  White  House, 
but  two  of  the  most  illustrious  Presidents — Lincoln,  the  emanci- 
pator, and  Gen.  Grant — were  citizens  of  the  State  when  they 
were  raised  to  the  Chief  Magistracy. 

It  is  a  singular  fact  that  the  three  citizens  of  Tennessee  who 
occupied  the  White  House — Jackson,  Polk  and  Johnson — were 
natives  of  North  Carolina.  The  first  two  named  lived  in  or  near 
Nashville. 

As  to  education:  Washington,  Jackson,  Van  Buren,  Taylor, 
Fillmore,  Lincoln,  Johnson  and  Cleveland  were  not  college  men. 
Except  Van  Buren  and  Cleveland,  who  were  educated  in  small 
academies,  the  others  received  only  the  commonest  kind  of  an 
education.  Johnson  could  neither  read  nor  write  until  his  wife 
taught  him  those  accomplishments. 

Both  the  Adamses,  father  and  son,  were  Harvard  College 
graduates.  John  Quincy  Adams  was  a  professor  at  Harvard. 

Madison  graduated  from  Princeton  College,  and  Jefferson, 
Monroe  and  Tyler  received  their  sheepskins  at  William  and 
Mary  College,  Virginia. 

Old  Gen.  Harrison  graduated  from  the  Hampden-Sidney  Col- 
lege, Polk  from  the  North  Carolina  University,  Pierce  from  Bow- 
doin  College,  Buchanan  at  Dickinson  College,  and  Grant  at  West 
Point.  Williams  College  was  Garfield's  alma  mater,  Hayes  was 


236  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

trained  at  Kenyon  College,  Arthur  at  Union  College,  and  Harri- 
son at  Miami  University. 

No  less  than  eleven  Presidents  had  military  titles  won  on  the 
battlefield.  Washington  and  Grant  were  commanding  Generals; 
Jackson,  William  H.  Harrison,  Taylor  and  Garfield,  Major-Gen- 
erals;  Pierce,  Hayes,  and  Benjamin  Harrison,  Brigadier-Generals. 
Monroe  was  a  Major  and  Lincoln  a  Captain.  Washington,  Mon- 
roe and  Jackson  took  part  in  the  Revolution;  Jackson,  Harrison, 
and  Taylor  in  the  War  of  1812;  Taylor,  Pierce  and  Grant  went 
through  the  Mexican  war;  Lincoln  fought  in  the  Black  Hawk 
war,  and  Grant,  Hayes,  Garfield,  and  Benjamin  Harrison  in  the 
war  of  the  Rebellion. 

All  the  Presidents  except  Jackson,  Taylor,  Grant,  Arthur, 
Cleveland,  and  Benjamin  Harrison  served  in  their  State  Legisla- 
tures. All  of  them  except  Taylor,  Grant,  Arthur,  Cleveland,  and 
the  new  President  were  Congressmen. 

Jefferson,  Jackson,  Van  Buren,  Harrison,  Tyler,  Polk,  Johnson, 
Hayes,  and  Cleveland  were  Governors  of  their  respective  States 
for  one  or  more  terms.  Both  Harrisons,  the  younger  Adams, 
Monroe,  Jackson,  Van  Buren,  Tyler,  Pierce,  Buchanan,  Johnson, 
and  Garfield  were  United  States  Senators.  Garfield  was  elected, 
but  he  never  served,  having  been  elected  President  shortly  after- 
ward. Jackson  never  spoke  in  the  Senate. 

Seven  of  them  were  Cabinet  officials.  Jefferson,  Madison, 
Monroe,  John  Quincy  Adams,  Van  Buren,  and  Buchanan  served 
as  Secretaries  of  State,  and  Gen.  Grant  as  Secretary  of  War  for 
five  months.  Both  the  Adamses,  Jefferson,  Monroe,  Tippecanoe 
Harrison,  and  Buchanan  were  Ministers  to  foreign  countries. 

Only  one  President  was  a  Sheriff;  that  was  Cleveland.  Only 
one  an  Alderman — Johnson.  Both  Johnson  and  Cleveland  were 
Mayors.  Gen.  Grant  was  the  youngest  President,  47,  and  "  Old 
Tippecanoe  "  the  oldest,  68.  Monroe,  Grant,  and  Arthur  were 
residents  of  New  York  City  when  they  died. 

In  business  life  Washington  was  a  surveyor;  Jackson  worked 
in  a  harness  shop,  sold  cotton  and  mules;  Taylor,  a  farmer;  Fill- 
more,  a  clothmaker's  apprentice;  Lincoln,  a  boatman  and  wood- 
chopper;  Johnson,  a  tailor;  Grant,  a  tanner;  Garfield,  a  canaler; 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  237 

John  Adams,  Arthur  and  Cleveland,  teachers. 

Several  Presidents  had  nicknames,  Jackson  was  "Old  Hick- 
ory"; W.  H.  Harrison,  "Old  Tippecanoe";  Taylor,  "  Rough  and 
Ready";  Buchanan  was  called  "Old  Buck";  Lincoln,  "Old 
Abe,"  and  Gen.  Benjamin  Harrison,  "  Little  Ben." 


Tippecanoe  Entertainment,  Jteld  April  4,   1889. 


When  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club  announced  a  musical  and 
literary  entertainment,  to  be  given  under  their  auspices,  every- 
body knew  it  would  be  a  good  one,  because  the  old  Tippecanoe 
veterans  have  done  well  everything  they  have  tried  since  the  old 
days  of  '40,  when  they  helped  elect "  Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too." 
Last  night  they  deserted  the  Wigwam  for  Central  Music  Hall, 
where  they  assembled  in  large  numbers,  with  many  of  their 
friends,  to  listen  to  a  most  attractive  program  of  musical  and 
literary  selections.  The  stage  was  effectively  draped  with  Ameri- 
can flags  in  profusion,  and  at  the  right  was  the  portrait  of  Wil- 
liam Henry  Harrison,  the  unveiling  of  which  was  the  second 
number  on  the  program.  Mr.  Harrison  Wild  played  on  the  organ 
with  his  customary  success  an  opening  number,  which  ushered 
upon  the  stage  the  members  of  the  club  to  the  number  of  about 
one  hundred.  It  was  an  imposing  and  affecting  sight  to  see  the 
array  of  aged,  who  have  been  active  and  enthusiastic  in  political 
affairs  for  over  forty  years.  Here  and  there  a  dark  head  was 
seen,  but  a  large  majority  were  white,  and  there  were  a  good 
many  canes,  which  came  in  excellent  play  for  applause  later  in 
the  evening.  After  the  unveiling  of  the  portrait  Hon.  Thomas  B. 
Bryan  delivered  an  address,  substantially  a  follows: 
FELLOW  CITIZENS: 

In  this  venerable  presence  it  seems  to  me  that  silence  would  best  become 
a  stripling  of  only  three  score  years. 

Despite,  however,  my  protest,  several  hundred  of  these  sprightly  octoge- 
narians have  summoned  me  to  this  platform. 

As  the  elections  are  over,  and  the  discussion  of  politics  would  not  accord 
with  the  proprieties  of  this  occasion,  my  compliance  with  the  request  for  an 


238  MEMORIAL  BOOK  OF  THE 

introductory  address  shall  be  limited  to  a  few  words,  uttered  in  deference  to 
age.  In  passing,  however,  and  speaking  generally,  it  may  not  be  amiss  to  declare 
that  no  danger  so  threatens  the  permanence  of  our  Republican  institutions  as 
do  the  hot-beds  of  corruption  in  the  politics  and  administration  of  cities.  In 
this  respect  a  somewhat  extended  comparison  has  forced  upon  me  the  pain- 
ful conviction  that  our  American  cities  present  a  mortifying  contrast  to  those 
of  Europe.  It  behooves  our  legislators  and  patriotic  citizens  to  devise  some 
plan  of  municipal  government  that  will  divorce,  as  far  as  possible,  party  poli- 
tics from  the  control  of  our  city  administrations,  so  that  oft-recurring  municipal 
elections  may  not  tempt  excited  and  eager  partisans  to  vie  with  each  other  in 
courting  the  support  of  the  worst  elements  of  society.  The  best  men  of  both 
the  political  parties  that  battle  for  city  prizes,  acknowledge  the  evil,  and  in 
expressions  that  may  be  condensed  in  some  such  epigram  as  this: 

Twixt  the  Iroquois  and  the  Tippecanoes 
In  our  city  elections  there's  little  to  choose; 
For  with  cither's  defeat  (horse,  foot  and  dragoons) 
There  yet  flourish  alike  the  dens  and  saloons. 

As  banks  and  great  commercial  houses  are  confided  to  men  of  business 
capacity,  without  regard  to  their  political  antecedents  and  connections,  why 
should  not  the  more  complex  affairs  of  great  cities  be  entrusted,  without 
regard  to  politics,  to  those  possessed  of  the  requisite  business  qualifications? 
But  a  truce  to  this  grave  topic! 

Could  the  years  of  these  fathers,  now  occupying  this  stage,  be  regarded 
as  not  contemporaneous,  but  be  extended  to  the  past  in  a  continuous  chain, 
with  links  of  three  score  years  and  ten  or  more,  it  is  startling  to  think  that  it 
would  reach  to  a  remote  age  of  hundreds  of  centuries  ago.  Such  a  reflection 
upon  the  present  pervading  atmosphere  of  antiquity  about  this  platform  re- 
calls my  impressions  when  first  pacing  the  streets  of  Pompei,  and  fancying 
them  peopled  as  of  old. 

And  this  is  a  club!  A  club  not  of  commercial  men;  not  of  dancers;  not 
of  scientists;  not  of  "them  literary  fellers;"  but,  apart  from  its  political  affili- 
ations, a  club  of  silver  beards  and  glistening  heads. 

Some  may  call  it  hobby-riding.  But  shall  the  riding  of  hobbies  be  con- 
fined to  the  young?  Why  should  old  men  voluntarily  shelve  themselves? 
Death  of  the  mind  is  worse  than  total  death,  which  it  often  precipitates.  With 
man's  faculties  disuse  is  decay.  The  genial  prince  of  anglers  occupied  his 
ninetieth  year  with  successful  authorship.  In  our  own  day  two  continents 
listen  with  eager  interest  to  every  utterance  of  Bismark  and  of  Gladstone. 
Just  homage  to  age  is  intensified  when  the  old  evince  intelligent  interest  in 
current  affairs. 

Not  a  few  are  the  compensations  of  age.  Among  the  chief  of  these  is  the 
feasting  of  memory.  Youth  rarely  occupies  itself  with  thoughts  of  age,  but 


THOS.  B.  BRYAN. 


24O  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

age  continually  reverts  to  youth.     Rarely  indeed  do  we  hear — once  only  have 
I  ever  heard — an  old  man  quote: 

"O  Memory!     Thou  lingering  murmur 

Within  joy's  broken  shell, 
Why  have  I  not,  in  losing  all  I  loved, 
Lost  thee  as  well?" 

These  gentlemen  delight  to  recall  the  earlier  presidents,  and  especially 
the  elder  Harrison,  for  whom,  as  for  his  illustrious  grandson,  they  worked  and 
voted — with  an  interval  of  nearly  half  a  century  between  the  two.  Some  have 
described  with  accuracy  to  me  the  personal  appearance  of  the  first,  for  as 
Geo.  Elliott  says:  "Old  men's  eyes  are  like  old  men's  memories;  they  are 
strongest  for  things  a  long  ways  off." 

Then,  too,  this  club,  like  that  of  the  "  Old  Settlers,"  is  a  club  of  peculiar 
experience.  A  third  or  a  half  a  century  in  Chicago  is  equal  to  a  whole  age  of 
Methuselah  in  some  sleepy  hollow.  What  marvels  of  growth  since  we  waded 
through  the  muddy  village,  with  its  varying  grades,  necessitating  climbing 
and  descending  steps  from  block  to  block,  familiarizing  one  with  the  ups  and 
downs  of  life!  Now  behold  a  mighty  metropolis  boldly  aspiring  to  com- 
mercial supremacy  among  the  cities  of  the  earth!  Was  there  ever  before  so 
great  an  alembic,  in  which,  with  like  rapidity,  old  customs  and  conservative 
sluggishness,  were  dissolved,  and  results  of  genuine  and  startling  progress  at- 
tained? Not  among  these  aged  eye-witnesses  of  that  progress  can  be  found 
one  man  to  question  the  mighty  destiny  of  Chicago.  Such  a  doubter  could 
only  find  comfort  in  Pascal's  consoling  observation,  that  "  Man  is  necessarily 
so  much  of  a  fool  that  it  would  be  a  species  of  folly  not  to  be  a  fool."  Then, 
too,  these  old  men,  unlike  some  of  the  opposite  sex,  whose  age  some  growler 
declares  to  be  the  only  secret  they  keep  inviolably,  rather  plume  themselves 
upon  their  years.  And  well  they  may — for  experience  such  as  theirs  is  apt  to 
purify  the  mind,  and  strengthen  the  judgment.  They  ought,  as  a  body,  to  exer- 
cise a  salutary  influence  over  us  all,  especially  at  times  of  election  when  man's 
morality  is  rather  a  loose-fitting  garment.  Look  at  these  men,  and  say  if  their 
honest  faces  do  not  answer  effectively  the  ill-natured  comment  of  that  scoffer 
at  mankind,  Heine,  when  speaking  of  La  Fayette  as  the  only  honest  man,  and 
that  "  at  his  death  the  situation  was  vacant." 

Whatever  may  be  their  infirmities  of  body,  however  heavy  and  labored 
the  step  of  some,  they  seem  at  least  light-hearted.  And  so  men  should  be; 
realizing  that  if  man  is  the  only  animal  that  knows  he  must  die,  he  is  also  the 
only  animal  that  knows  how  to  laugh.  Extremely  rare  are  those  whose  life 
lease  is  ninety-nine  years,  and  none  with  a  clause  of  renewal  in  this — what  the 
Book  of  Ecclesiastes  might  call — grasshopper  country.  But,  though,  as  with 
most  scarce  things,  the  fewer  the  days  left  us,  the  more  precious  they  should 
be,  I  have  no  patience  with  the  man  who  makes  of  himself  a  sand-glass,  con- 
stantly brooding  over  the  descending  sand,  instead  of  being  a  sun-dial  ever 
brightly  reflecting  the  goodness  and  mercy  of  God. 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  241 

The  glowing  remark  of  one  of  this  club,  a  day  or  two  since,  and  of  one, 
too,  who  was  in  active  business  when  I  was  still  in  the  cradle,  that  he  loves 
now,  more  than  ever,  both  his  country  and  the  women  who  glorify  it,  amused 
and  gratified  me  not  a  little.  The  love  of  country  takes  deep  root  in  congenial 
soil,  grows  with  one's  growth,  and  endures  to  the  end.  That  the  heart  which  has 
pulsated  for  over  eighty  years  with  the  love  of  woman,  should  by  that  time 
fully  appreciate  so  good  a  thing,  is  not  unnatural,  nor  should  such  a  flame  in  a 
good  old  heart  occasion  any  more  surprise  than  that  green  wood  kindles  less 
quickly  than  that  which  is  old  and  thoroughly  dry. 

I  well  remember  seeing  Grant,  Sheridan  and  Sherman  together  in  a 
social  company  in  Washington,  the  last  the  liveliest  of  the  illustrious  trio.  He 
amused  himself,  and  everybody  else,  by  his  frolicsome  snatching  of  kisses  from 
young  women,  whose  ringing  laugh  attested  their  willing  tribute  to  his  age  and 
distinction.  If  all  his  enemies  had  but  one  neck  Nero  would  have  severed  it  at 
one  stroke.  If  all  the  fair  of  our  land  had  but  one  pair  of  lips,  and  our  greatest 
surviving  General  were  anywhere  in  reach,  terrific  would  be  the  concussion. 

Two  things  are  entitled,  as  a  rule,  to  especial  respect,  long  lives  and  short 
speeches.  My  aged  friends  having  insisted  upon  my  being  their  mouth-piece, 
I  greet  you  warmly,  brothers,  in  their  behalf.  And  the  cordial  greeting  ex- 
tends to  you  also,  my  fair  auditors,  who  can  best  enlighten  me  on  all  the  duties 
of  a  mouth-piece.  One  thing,  however,  is  certain,  the  lip-salutation  of  these  vet- 
eran worshippers  of  women  could  not,  even  were  they  willing,  be  warmly  and 
effectively  tendered  by  proxy. 

Then  Rev.  Dr.  Withrow  recited  in  the  spirit  of  its  author — 
Oliver  WendeH  Holmes — the  humorous  poem,  entitled  "The 
Boys." 

After  a  march  on  the  organ  by  Mr.  Wild,  the  Imperial  Quar- 
tette sang  in  its  usual  successful  manner,  and  later  in  the  evening 
again,  both  times  responding  to  well-merited  encores.  A  recita- 
tion, Susan  Coolidge's  "  Ginevra,"  by  Miss  Hattie  Fleming,  was 
one  of  the  most  pleasing  things  heard  in  many  a  day  in  Chicago. 
Miss  Fleming  has  not  appeared  in  public  before,  but  by  her 
charming  grace  and  finished  reading  of  the  poem  she  captivated 
her  audience.  She  was  followed  by  Miss  Mary  Shelton  Wood- 
head,  who  sang  in  highland  costume,  "A  Hundred  Pipers."  Miss 
Woodhead  is  always  well  received,  and  last  night  added  laurels 
to  her  reputation.  Later  in  the  program  she  sang  "Annie 
Laurie,"  and  as  an  encore  "  The  Land  o'  the  Leal,"  which  always 
captures  an  audience  when  she  sings  it.  The  dancing  of  Miss 
Cora  Spicer,  a  little  girl,  was  very  good,  and  gave  general  plea- 


242  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

sure.  The  old  song,  "The  Sword  of  Bunker  Hill,"  was  sung  by  Mr. 
A.  H.  Williams,  an  aged  member  of  the  club.  He  carried  an  old 
sabre  which  saw  service  at  Bunker  Hill  in  the  hands  of  Captain 
Simeon  Crandall,  from  whom  it  had  descended  to  his  great-grand- 
son, Mr.  G.  S.  Knapp.  After  this  song,  Mrs.  Josephine  Turck- 
Baker  recited  two  selections  from  "  Josiah  Allen's  Wife,"  giving 
much  satisfaction  to  the  highly  pleased  audience.  Two  recita- 
tions by  Mr.  Eugene  Hall  were  well  received.  Mr.  Fenton  B. 
Turck  gave  some  excellent  impersonations,  "  doing  "  Professor 
Swing  and  Dr.  Lorimer,  to  the  unmistakable  delight  of  the  audi- 
ence. The  program  concluded  with  a  most  pleasing  series  of 
characteristic  pieces  played  by  Mr.  Paul  Olah's  Hungarian 
Orchestra  from  the  Eden  Musee. 


Jhe   SWord   of  Bunker  JHill. 


AS    SUNG    BY    MR.    A.    H.    WILLIAMS. 

He  lay  upon  his  dying  bed, 
His  eye  was  growing  dim, 

When  with  a  feeble  voice  he  called 

His  weeping  son  to  him. 
"  Weep  not,  my  boy,"  the  veteran  said, 

"  I  bow  to  Heaven's  high  will, 

But  quickly  from  yon  antler  bring 
The  Sword  of  Bunker  Hill." 


Now  sixty  millions  bless  the  sire, 
And  Sword  of  Bunker  Hill. 


A.  H.  WILLIAMS. 


244  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

/\  potable  Qatherirvg. 


People  who  happened  to  be  on  State,  between  Washington 
and  Randolph  streets,  Thursday  evening,  a  little  before  eight 
o'clock,  heard  the  shrill  tone  of  a  fife  and  the  sharp  rat-a-tat  of  a 
tenor  drum.  Then  there  passed  through  the  dim  light  of  the 
gas-lamps  a  procession,  headed  by  two  American  flags  and  a 
banner,  in  which  marched  men  two  by  two,  going  toward  the 
north. 

The  voicings  of  the  fife  were  a  trifle  querulous,  as  if  the  wind 
of  the  player  were  scant,  and  the  tones  of  the  drum  were  some- 
what quavering  and  uncertain,  as  if  the  hands  that  held  the  sticks 
were  a  little  weak  and  shaky.  There  was  a  peculiar  accompani- 
ment to  the  hesitating  utterences  of  the  instruments — that  of  the 
tapping  of  metal  on  the  stone  of  the  sidewalk.  It  was  the  impact 
of  canes  carried  by  the  members  of  the  procession,  each  of  which 
struck  the  pavement  as  if  it  were  impelled  by  a  heavy  weight. 

One  could  not  see  the  faces  of  the  individuals  of  the  pro- 
cession, in  the  obscurity;  but  one  could  see  that  many  of  them 
stooped  as  they  walked,  as  if  there  were  a  powerful  attraction 
pulling  them  toward  the  earth.  Some  of  their  legs  were  stiffened 
so  that  movement  was  an  awkward  sort  of  hop-and-skip;  some 
of  the  heads  were  dropped  well  forward  so  that  the  chins  almost 
touched  the  breasts.  All  the  way  the  canes  played  a.  conspicuous 
staccato  accompaniment  10  the  march. 

A  little  later  the  audience  in  Central  Music  Hall  saw  on  the 
stage  a  dense  mass  of  black  which  was  covered  with  fleecy  white 
as  from  a  covering  of  virgin  snow.  Under  the  strong  glare  of  the 
footlights  the  individuality  of  the  procession  from  the  street  be- 
came distinct.  It  was  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Club,  men  who  had 
voted  for  the  original  log-cabin  candidate,  and  who,  on  the  anni- 
versary of  his  death,  had  gathered  to  do  honor  to  his  memory. 
It  may  be  that  the  assembling  on  the  4th  of  April  wag  not  inten- 
tional; if  not,  the  coincidence  was  a  curious  one. 

It  was  something  to  inspire  reverence,  almost  awe,  the  spec- 
tacle of  this  snow-thatched  aggregation.  There  was  much  that 


OLD   TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  245 

was  pathetic  in  their  attitudes  as  they  patiently  stood,  with 
bowed  figures  and  leaning  heavily  on  their  canes,  during  the  long 
preliminary  performances.  Their  rheumatic  legs  must  have  hurt 
them,  and  their  poor  old  backs  ached,  as  for  almost  a  full  hour 
they  were  forced  to  stand  without  opportunity  for  a  change  of 
positio'n. 

It  is  a  half  century  since  the  youngest  among  them  was  old 
enough  to  vote  for  "Tippecanoe  and  Tyler,  too."  Some  of  them 
voted  eight  years  before  the  advent  of  Harrison,  which  would  place 
them  now  in  the  eighties.  Some  of  them  are  as  old  as  the  century. 

It  was  a  curious  speculation  on  the  part  of  some  of  the  audi- 
ence as  to  what  these  old  men  were  thinking  of  as  they  stood 
thus  in  a  solid  mass.  Did  the  contact,  the  numbers,  strengthen 
them  and  make  them  reflect,  each  one  thinking:  "  I  am  not  the 
only  one  who  is  aged,  white-haired  and  failing.  All  these  men 
are  the  same  as  I,  and  I  will  not  have  to  cross  the  river  alone." 
Did  the  fact  that  there  were  so  many  of  them  afford  a  species  of 
grim  consolation? 

That  they  thought  of  the  past  cannot  be  doubted.  Their 
memories  took  them  back  to  1840,  when  hard  cider  was  a  party 
beverage  and  a  rallying  cry;  when  the  country  blazed  with  bon- 
fires; when  log  cabins  ranked  higher  than  palaces,  and  the  nation 
was  crazed  with  an  enthusiasm  which  has  not  since  been  rivaled. 
And  possibly,  too,  they  thought  of  their  victory,  the  interposition 
of  cruel  death,  and  that  in  the  re-election  of  the  grandson  of 
their  venerated  chief  there  was  something  in  the  nature  of  a 
compensation. 

One  could  not  avoid  thinking  as  he  gazed  on  the  gray,  stoop- 
shouldered  men,  leaning  heavily  on  their  sticks,  of  the  contrast, 
between  them  and  their  former  selves.  Then  these  men,  with 
the  wan  faces  and  shriveled  forms,  were  rose-cheeked,  full  as  to 
chest  and  muscle,  with  hair  brown,  raven  and  dense,  and  with 
voices,  not  as  now,  thin,  weak  and  tremulous,  but  stentorian  as 
they  shook  the  ground  with  their  mighty  huzzas. — Herald. 

NOTE. — The  above  mentioned  "  coincidence  "  was  undesigned,  and  the 
"banner"  referred  to  was  displayed  in  the  convention  which  nominated  Gen. 
William  Henry  Harrison  for  President  in  1840. 


MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

Members  of  the  Old   Jippecanoe  Club. 


Abbott,  S.  G. 
Abernethy,  J.  W. 
Ackerman,  James 
Ackley,  Benj. 
Adams,  James 
Aiken,  Daniel 
Ames,  Cheney 
Ashbury,  Capt.  H. 
Askin,  Robert  Y. 
Atkins,  Henry  M. 
Averill,  A.  J. 
Avery,  W.  B. 
Ayers,  E. 
Ayers,  W.  B. 
Babcock,  John  N. 
Backer,  Fred 
Badger,  Leonidas 
Baker,  John  P. 
Baldwin,  Henry 
Baldwin,  VVm.  G. 
Ballard,  O.  W. 
Barbour,  L. 
Barber,  Lillibridge 
Barnard,  R.  H. 
Barnes,  A.  H. 
Barnett,  Alexander 
Bartlett,  Joseph  P. 
Bartlett,  E.  L. 
Bassett,  Jared 
Bates,  A.  T. 
Battershaw,  M. 
Beecher,  Jerome 
Beecher,  W.m.  Henry 
Beefield,  William 
Bennett,  R.  J. 
Beckwith,  C.  H. 
Becker,  J.  W. 
Beidler,  J. 
Beidler,  Henry 
Benton,  R.  O. 
Biglow,  L.  H. 
Bishop,  G.  O. 


Billings,  A.  M. 
Billings,  Henry  L. 
Booth,  Judge 
Bone,  J.  C. 
Bonham,  G.  W. 
Bosworth,  A. 
Bosttetter,  J. 
Boyden,  Jas.  W. 
Boyington,  Wm.  W. 
Brace,  Wm. 
Brackett,  Joseph  W. 
Bradley,  Wm.  Henry 
Bradley,  D. 
Bradley,  Frances 
Brayton,  J.  W. 
Brayton,  E.  F. 
Brooks,  J.  W. 
Brown,  Charles  E. 
Bristol,  George  S. 
Blackall,  A.  H. 
Blair,  M.  R. 
Blair,  William 
Blakesley,  Levi 
Blakestee,  L. 
Blodgett,  Phineus  M. 
Buel,  James  W. 
Burroughs,  Phillip 
Burley,  Arther  H. 
Burley,  Arther  G. 
Burns,  A.  H. 
Burns,  Patrick 
Burbank,  T.  W. 
Burt,  A.  S. 
Butlers,  M.  R. 
Carr,  Dr.  Watson 
Carrington,  N.  S. 
Gary,  John  M. 
Carter,  Thos.  B. 
Carpenter,  Geo.  W. 
Castle,  Col.  E.  H. 
Case,  S.  S. 
Campbell,  B.  H. 


Cannon,  M.  S. 
Chadwick,  James  N. 
Chadwick,  Wm.  B. 
Chessmann,  N. 
Chalmers,  Thos. 
Chapin,  L.  R. 
Chapin,  Henry  L. 
Chase,  J.  R. 
Churchill,  Stillman 
Clark,  J.  H. 
Clark,  Dr.  \\T.  E. 
Cleaver,  Chas. 
Clement,  J.  C. 
Clement,  Stephen  H. 
Coale,  Isaac 
Cobb,  S.  B. 
Cobb,  Lucius  I. 
Cobb,  G.  W. 
Cool,  Benj. 
Coon,  P.  H. 
Coffin,  Fred  W. 
Coffin,  R. 
Cogswell,  F. 
Colby,  E. 
Colbson,  J.  H. 
Cole,  Israel 
Colton,  C.  W. 
Conkey,  W.  H. 
Converse,  Henry 
Connally,  A.  P. 
Coultright,  J. 
Crana,  D.  E. 
Craig,  C.  W. 
Crawford,  John 
Crawford,  H.  P. 
Cross,  Asahel  T. 
Crittonton,  E.  O. 
Crim,  Dr.  M. 
Crure,  Dr.  M. 
Currey,  James 
Dame,  Capt.  John 
Davis,  F.  M. 


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247 


Corey,  F.  E. 
Danly,  G.  L. 
Davis,  J.  R. 
Davidson,  W. 
Dean,  D.  H. 
Dewey,  Washington 
Dewey,  Solomon  P. 
De  Wolf,  W.  F. 
Doddridge,  J.  G. 
Dodge,  George, 
Downs,  M.  D. 
Douglas,  Frank 
Dickey,  J.  P. 
Dickinson,  W.  P. 
Duffield,  C. 
Dunning,  C.  A. 
Dunham,  John  H. 
Durant,  J.  T. 
Durley,  Madison 
Dye,  Nathan 
Eddy,  Ira  B. 
Edwards,  S.  W. 
Elliott,  Wm.  Sidney 
Emory,  Franklin 
Eschen,  J.  T. 
Farnsworth,  L.  L. 
Ferguson,  D.  C. 
Ferguson,  J.  C. 
Fisk,  D.  B. 
Finnelly,  Benj. 
Follett,  J.  D. 
Foster,  Charles  G. 
Follett,  M.  P. 
Forbes,  S.  D. 
Frailey,  W.  P. 
Frank,  H. 
Freer,  L.  C.  P. 
Frisbie,  M.  L. 
Frost,  S.  D. 
Fulton,  L.  H. 
Fuller,  Andrew 
Fry,  John  E. 
Gage,  John 
Gage,  H. 
Garlick,  Leman  W. 


Garnett,  Wm. 
Garner,  G.  P. 
Gates,  P.  W. 
Gale,  Stephen  F. 
George,  L.  F. 
Gerden,  B.  W. 
Gibbs,  Aaron  Dr. 
Gibbs,  O.  F. 
Gidron,  Capt.  G.  W. 
Gill,  J.  H. 
Gifford,  Calvin 
Goodman,  Thos. 
Goodrich,  Grant 
Goney,  S. 
Gookins,  F.  Y. 
Grath,  P.  M. 
Gray,  F.  D. 
Gregory,  J.  H 
Griggs,  F.  C. 
Griffing,  W.  A. 
Grunnip,  L. 
Hair,  Uriah 
Haggard,  Samuel  B. 
Haggard,  J.  V. 
Haight,  F.  T. 
Hall,  T.  W. 
Harris,  Geo.  P. 
Harrison,  W.  H. 
Harmon,  Joseph  W. 
Hardy,  Dexter 
Hammond,  M.  W. 
Hammond,  Rev.H.L. 
Hatch,  J.  C. 
Hawley,  C.  M. 
Hayden,  Amos 
Hewitt,  Wm.  P. 
Higgins,  Judge  V.  H. 
Higginson,  Geo.  M. 
Hillard,  L.  P. 
Hinckley,  Watson  S. 
Holden,  R. 
Hoine,  D.  H. 
Holt,  George 
Holmes,  Rev.  D.  G. 
Hoffin,  Samuel 


Hough,  D.  L. 
Hough,  R.  M. 
Houston,  A.  Van 
Howe,  John  D. 
Howland,  Isaac 
Hoyt,  A.  L. 
Hubbard,  Thomas 
Hubbard,  W.  R. 
Hull,  J.  B. 
Huntley,  Silas 
Huntington,  John 
Hurd,  Thomas 
Husted,  H.  H. 
Huston,  Brice  Viers 
Hutchinson,  J.  D 
Hyde,  William 
Hyde,  J.  T. 
Ingraham,  Wm.  W. 
Ingersoll,  Frederick 
Jack,  Mathew  W. 
Jackson,  Chas.  P. 
James,  John 
Jenks,  Chancellor 
Jenks,  M.  W. 
Jessel,  E.  H. 
Jones,  Cyrus 
Jones  W. 
Johnson,  John 
Kealy,  E.  P. 
Keeling,  William 
Kennedy,  John  M. 
Kerr,  J.  M. 
Kent,  B.  A. 
Kilgore,  Isaac  C. 
Kile,  John 
Kinne,  Isaac  D. 
King,  John,  Jr. 
King,  T.  B. 
Kingsley,  W.  S. 
Kirby,  James 
Knapp,  G.  S. 
Kinnly,  J. 
Kunbark,  M.  N. 
Kyle,  O.  G. 
Lane,  John 


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MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 


Lane,  E.  S. 
Laning,  Capt.  James 
Langhurst,  Wm. 
Law,  J. 

Lawrence,  M.  A. 
Lawrence,  W.  H. 
Leake,Jas.  B. 
Loomis,  James  W. 
Loomis,  J.  M. 
Lovejoy,  M. 
Lovejoy,  F.  C. 
Lord,  J.  F. 
Little,  D. 
Lyman,  N.  R. 
Macauley,  M. 
Magee,  W. 
Magee  James  K. 
Mann,  O.  L. 
Marsh,  Isaac 
Marshall,  James  A. 
Mason,  Carlisle 
Mason,  J.  E. 
Mason,  Nelson 
Mathews,  P.  P. 
Matthews,  G.  L. 
McCulloch,  C.  G. 
McCulloch,  L.  G. 
McDaniels,  A. 
McHenry,  Capt.  H. 
McKindley,  James 
McLean,  John 
McMaster,  B.  D. 
Mears,  J.  C. 
Mears,  Nathan 
Mears,  C. 
Merrill,  J.  B. 
Merrill,  Nathan  F. 
Merrill,  Benj. 
Merriam,  Jas.  L. 
Mendsen,  William 
Meyers,  Henry 
Mills,  Luther  Laflin 
Miller,  John 
Mills,  Wm.  Bruce 
Miller,  T.  L. 


Miller,  Dr.  A. 
Miner,  G. 
Mitchell,  F.  M. 
Mitchell,  Thos.  F. 
Moore,  A.  J. 
Moore,  Warren 
Moore,  Geo.  S. 
Moore,  Thos.  C. 
Morrison,  Col.  A.  H. 
Morrison,  E. 
Morrison,  C.  E. 
Morrison,  L. 
Morton,  Chas.  H. 
Munger,  C.  W. 
Murray,  E.  D. 
Myrick,  W.  F. 
Newell,  J.  W. 
Nichols,  Chas.  H. 
Nickerson,  W.  H. 
Norton,  E.  H. 
Northway,  E.  H. 
Nourse,  Francis 
Nourse,  John 
Nowlin,  Lewis 
Officer,  A. 
Olcott,  Orville 
Osborn,  W.  A. 
Osborn,  Judge  A.  L. 
Osborn,  Henry 
Osborn,  S.  S. 
Osgood,  Isaac 
Packard,  J.  A. 
Paplin,  N.  S. 
Parks,L.  W. 
Parker,  Thos 
Parsons,  A. 
Pattle,  Moses  L. 
Patterson,  Wm. 
Patterson,  W.  H. 
Pease,  W.  H. 
Peck,  C.  E. 
Peck,  C.  M. 
Peck,  J.  C. 
Perry,  James  M. 
Perkins,  W.  S. 


Phillips,  M. 
Plummer,  B. 
Pomeroy,  G.  W. 
Pope,  Geo.  G. 
Pote,  Robert 
Potter,  John  O. 
Powers,  Levi 
Powers,  Amos  H. 
Platt,  Maj.  O.  H. 
Preble,  J.  G. 
Pridmore.  W.  H. 
Prince,  Lucian 
Pringle,  Thos. 
Pringle,  Thos.  J. 
Pritman,  V.  C. 
Pullman,  A.  B. 
Pullman,  G.  M. 
Pulisfer,  Samuel 
Ramsey,  O.  D. 
Ranny,  A.  D. 
Rawson,  Alonzo 
Raymond,  A.  N. 
Reed,  Alanson 
Reed,  H.  B. 
Reiter,  W. 
Rew,  Henry  A. 
Reynolds,  A.  S. 
Richards,  Rawson 
Richmond,  H.  M. 
Rin,  D.  A. 
Ripley,  Wm. 
Ripley,  Geo.  C. 
Risbig,  Levi 
Robertson,  Thomas 
Robinson,  J.  N. 
Rodgers,  W.  B. 
Rogers,  Thos.  H. 
Rogers,  Thomas 
Ross,  R.  C. 
Roundy,  D.  C. 
Sanford,  S.  A. 
Sayrs,  Henry 
Searles,  Wm.  D. 
Sedgwick,  Dr.  S.  P. 
Severence,  J.  F. 


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249 


Sawyer,  D.  B. 
Sayers,  R.  F. 
Scammon,  J.  Y. 
Schaffer,  J. 
Schmidt,  J. 
Scott,  Gen.  Horace 
Scott,  Geo.  W. 
Scott,  W.  D. 
Scribner,  Wiley  S. 
Shaw,  Calvin 
Shepard,  W.  W. 
Sherwood,  P. 
Shipman,  Geo.  E. 
Shourds,  Benj. 
Shourds,  James 
Sieber,  Josiah 
Sinclair,  Jayson 
Skinner,  Wm. 
Slater,  F.  A.,  M.  D. 
Sloauneb,  A.  D. 
Sleeper,  J.  A. 
Slocum,  E.  F. 
Slosson,  Enos 
Smith,  Benj. 
Smith,  Benj.  E. 
Smith,  Dr.  D.  S. 
Smith,  H.  R. 
Smith,  O.  A. 
Smith,  W.  G. 
Soper,  Albert 
Spear,  S.  L. 
Spry,  John 
Staples,  R.  B. 
Start,  John 


Steel,  E.  P. 
Stedman,  D.  B. 
Stevens,  Isaac 
Stevens,  James  P. 
Stitt,  John 
Stoddard,  Ichabod 
Stone,  W.  B. 
Storey,  Geo.  H. 
Stout,  Gen.  A.  M. 
Stovie,  C.  U. 
Tait,  John 
Tanner,  Henry 
Taplin,  M.  S. 
Taylor,  J.  B. 
Taylor,  J.  H. 
Teale,  E.  P. 
Ten  Eyck,  T. 
Thomas,  B.  W. 
Thomas,  T.  D. 
Thomas,  Wm. 
Thompson,  Jared 
Thompson,  M.  M. 
Throop,  Amos  G. 
Tiffany,  Dr.  E. 
Toms,  Collins  S. 
Townsend,  C. 
True.  Daniel 
Turner,  John 
Turner,  J.  V. 
Turner,  J.  A. 
Tuttle,  Fred 
Vail,  A.  S. 
Van  Dercook,  C.  R. 
Van  Houtten,  A.  R. 


Van  Velzer,  B. 
Viberts,  John 
Wakefield,  James  A. 
Walrath,  H.  M. 
Warner,  A.  G. 
Washington  Geo. 
Watkins,  Elias  J. 
Watson,  B.  A. 
Watts,  Robert 
Weigslebaum,  B. 
Wells,  M.  A. 
Wheeler  Hiram 
Whitbeck,  H. 
White,  C.  B. 
Whitney,  E.  H. 
Willard,  A.  J. 
Williams,  Asa 
Williams,  A.  H. 
Williams,  M.  D. 
Williams,  Chas. 
Wilson,  Washington 
Wilson,  W.  R. 
Wingate,  Albert 
Winslow,  J.  H. 
Winston,  N. 
Wolcott,  E.  B. 
Worster,  Asa 
Worthington,  D. 
Wright,  A.  J. 
Wright,  E.  L. 
Wright,  J.  G. 
Wright,  S.  F. 
Yates,  H.  H. 
Young,  J.    P. 


HONORARY   MEMBERS. 

Elaine,  Hon.  James  G.        Roach,  Hon.  John  A.  Elliot,   Mrs.  Minerva  K. 

Sec.  of  State  of  U.  S.  Mayor  of  Chicago  Garlick,  Mrs.  Annah  S. 

^Drake,  John  B.  ^AVithrow,  Rev.  Dr.  J.  L.  Hall,  Mrs.  S.  C. 

Douglas,  Stephen  A.  Bosworth,  Mrs.  Albert  Harrison,  Mrs.  A.  I. 

^-Fifer,   Hon.  Joseph  W.       Burroughs,  Miss  K.  Hopkins,  Mrs.  Mary  M. 

His  Excellency    Collins,  Mrs.  Thomas  Knapp,  Mrs.  G.  S. 

Harrison,  Benjamin,  Cooke,  Mrs.  A.  Augusta  Remington,  Mrs.  Belle 

President  of  the  U.  S.    Dewey,  Mrs.  Mary  Ten  Eyck,  Mrs.  Thos. 
.~  Mercer,  Rev.  L.  P. 


250  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

Jhe    Old    Quard. 


The  Old  Tippecanoe  Guard  will  not  be  the  least  among  the 
attractions  at  the  forthcoming  centennial  celebration.  It  is  ex- 
ceedingly graceful,  as  well  as  appropriate,  that  these  veteran 
voters  should  be  given  an  honored  place  at  an  assembly  convened 
to  observe  the  anniversary  of  the  inauguration  of  the  first  Presi- 
dent of  the  republic.  Some  still  survive  who  participated  in,  or 
witnessed  the  semi-centennial  which  was  commemorated  the 
year  before  Old  Tippecanoe  led  the  log-cabin,  coon,  cider,  and 
song  campaign  that  retired  forever  "  Little  Van  "  to  private  life, 
and  wrought  so  potentially  upon  the  Whig  conscience  of  nearly 
fifty  years  ago. 

The  political  canvasses  of  1840  and  1888 — of  Old  Tippecanoe 
and  Young  Tippecanoe — were  both  peculiarly  picturesque.  An 
effort  was  made  to  transform  the  bandanna  into  the  semblance  of 
a  sentiment,  but  campaign  exposure  and  evasion  early  took  shape 
and  form  out  of  it  and  left  only  a  shapeless,  colorless  shred,  no 
more  like  what  it  started  out  to  be  than  a  rag  compared  to  the 
stars  and  stripes.  But  the  attractions  of  the  simple,  sincere  can- 
vass of  log-cabin  days  never  failed  to  awaken  patriotic  impulses, 
to  quicken  the  public  life  into  high  resolve,  to  animate  the 
people,  and  at  the  same  time  to  expel  the  gall  of  bitterness  from 
a  campaign  that  became  famous  in  song  and  story.  The  strong 
Americanism  of  the  campaign  of  1840  was  healthful  to  the  na- 
tion, just  as  that  decided  bias  was  last  year  which  Young  Tippe- 
canoe gave  to  his  party  and  the  people  in  all  his  public  utter- 
ances. There  had  been  much  in  politics  that  was  too  practical 
or  too  professional.  The  change  from  this  side  of  selfishness  and 
place-seeking  to  the  other  of  patriotic  endeavor,  of  generous  ser- 
vice for  the  industrial  classes,  of  simple  worth  against  sham  and 
shoddy,  that  was  brought  about  by  both  Tippecanoes  was  re- 
freshing and  hopeful  for  the  republic.  So  unusual  was  it  that 
the  people  felt  its  picturesqueness  and  cherished  the  change.  A 
new  literature  was  introduced.  New  music  came.  The  song- 
writers of  the  war  for  the  Union  had  for  the  most  part  passed 


OLD    TIFPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  25! 

away,  and  this  fresh  field  was  peculiarly  grateful.  These  inno- 
vations introduced  amenities  into  the  campaign  such  as  had  not 
appeared  for  a  generation  in  political  history.  And  the  nation 
continues  to  enjoy  proofs  of  health  and  hope  from  that  expe- 
rience. 

The  influence  of  the  Old  Tippecanoe  Guard  is  not  confined  to 
last  autumn's  election.  It  will  be  felt  for  many  quadrennials  to 
come,  just  as  the  campaign  of  1840  is  even  now  more  than  a  mere 
cold  historical  fact.  The  white-haired  men  who  voted  for  Gene- 
ral Harrison  in  1840,  and  again  for  General  Harrison  in  1888,  are 
comparatively  few  and  feeble,  and  by  another  presidential  elec- 
tion many  will  be  laid  away  to  rest.  Their  influence  will  con- 
tinue, however,  and  the  men  of  Whig  convictions  in  1840,  and  of 
Republican  belief  in  1888,  will  have  sons  and  grand-sons  that  may 
be  expected  to  lead  the  van  in  every  great  public  improvement 
and  good  work.  The  history  these  Old  Tippecanoe  Guardsmen 
leave  is  already  luminous  with  their  labors  for  the  liberty  of 
every  race,  color  and  condition.  They  and  their  sons  will  be 
found  at  the  front  in  every  forward  movement.  And  while  the 
veterans  remain  let  them  be  given  the  largest  consideration,  and 
more  especially  in  the  centennial  of  the  nation  whose  history 
they  are  so  large  a  part  of,  and  to  whose  highest  welfare  they 
have  contributed  so  much. —  Inter  Ocean. 


Death  of  Wm.  ji.  Harrison 


PUBLISHED    IN   APRIL,    1841. 

The  western  firmament  is  spread 
With  festoons  of  a  mighty  woe  ; 
Upon  each  Alleghany's  head, 
Each  forest  and  each  vale  below, 
And  o'er  each  rolling  inland  sea, 
Is  heard  a  nation's  wail  for  thee, 
Thou,  ruler  of  a  day. 
Hear  !    Chanted  by  the  breezes  wild, 
The  requiem  of  freedom's  child, 
Where,  circling  the  northern  pole, 
The  hurricanes  of  winter  roll, 
Cold's  revelry  and  sway. 
Hear !  Wafted  on  the  prairie's  breath, 


252  MEMORIAL    BOOK    OF    THE 

The  tidings  of  the  patriot's  death, 

A  dirge,  by  nature  sung  ; 

But  echoing  still  the  anthem  high, 

That  burst  the  freedom,  when  the  cry 

Of  Independence  rung. 

For  when  that  Heaven  born  spirit  gave 

Her  charter  from  the  ocean  wave, 

Of  Atalanta's  throne, 

And  bade  America  awake, 

( In  accents  that  made  empires  quake,) 

And  armed  a  Washington, 

The  very  triumph  that  she  gave 

Roll'd  o'er  the  ashes  of  the  brave, 

And  saddn'd  victory's  swell, 

And  though  no  mighty  battle's  breath 

Burst  around  thy  bed  of  death 

And  bore  afar  thy  knell. 

Thou,  honored  brother  of  the  free, 

A  nations  tears  are  shed  for  thee. 

Ye  potentates  of  Europe,  you 

Of  old  hereditary  sway, 

Who  battle  holiest  truth — if  new, 

And  not  the  faith  of  grandsires — say, 

If  all  the  pageants  that  have  shown 

The  picture  of  an  empty  throne  ; 

Or  all  the  hired  peals  that  ring 

Around  the  coffin  of  a  king  ; 

Or  all  the  mercenary  gloom 

Of  mourners  at  a  despot's  tomb, 

Can  equal  that  spontaneous  tear 

Wept  over  a  worth  to  freedom  dear. 

As  sunlight  to  the  gem, 

A  worth  that  shed  a  holier  glow 

Around  the  patriot  hero's  brow 

Than  empires  diadem. 

No  !   Though  the  millions  weeping,  bend 

O'er  St.  Helena's  empty  tomb 

And  monarchy  dead,  a  glory  lend 

To  Russia's  frozen  womb. 

Though  sepulchres  embannered  vie 

With  columns  trophied  to  the  sky, 

And  pyramids  of  marble  dare 

To  shoot  beyond  the  tides  of  air, 

To  heaven's  empyreal  blue, 

Though    proudest    ministers    o'er   your 

shrines, 

Are  decked  from  farthest  India's  mines 
In  fettered  gold  for  you. 
For  him  a  nobler  trophy  springs 
Than  decks  a  dateless  line  of  kings, 
Which  time  can  never  dim, 
Till  skies  wrapt  up  in  doom  shall  be, 
Deep  in  the  hearts  of  millions  free. 
Behold  the  shrine  of  HIM  ! 


OLD    TIPPECANOE    CLUB,    CHICAGO.  253 

President   Harrison's  Tribute   to   the  Tippecarvoes. 


WASHINGTON,  D.  C.,  May  9. — The  Association  of  Veterans  of 
1840,  composed  of  members  of  the  Tippecanoe  Club,  who  assisted 
in  the  election  of  President  William  Henry  Harrison,  called  at 
the  White  House  today  in  a  body,  for  the  purpose  of  paying 
their  respects  to  the  President. 

There  were  about  seventy  veterans  in  all,  including  ex-Minister 
Schenck,  ex-Senator  Pomeroy  and  ex-Public  Printer  Clapp.  The 
latter  acted  as  chairman  of  the  delegation,  and  made  an  address. 
The  president  responded  as  follows: 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen: — I  beg  to  assure  you  that  I  ap- 
preciate very  highly  this  evidence  of  your  respect  and  confidence. 
If  I  were  to  set  before  me  an  ambition  which  would  insure  the 
success  of  my  administration,  it  would  be  that  I  might  continue 
to  hold  fast  the  respect  and  confidence  of  such  men  as  your- 
selves, matured  of  mind  and  unbiased  in  judgment.  I  thank  you 
for  coming,  and  for  your  kindly  words. 


BENJAMIN    HARRISON. 


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